The goal of this article is to present a sketch of what, following the German social theorist
Arnold Gehlen, may be termed “sensuous cognition.” The starting point of this alternative …

In this paper, we aim to contribute to the discussion of the role of the human body and of the
concrete artefacts and signs created by humankind in the constitution of meanings for …

In this paper I sketch an embodied, cultural, and material conception of cognition and
discuss some of the implications for mathematics education. This approach, which I term …

The cognitive significance of the body has become one of the major topics in current
psychology. However, it is our contention that claims about the embodied nature of thinking …

A semiotic perspective on mathematical activity provides a way of conceptualizing the
teaching and learning of mathematics that transcends and encompasses both psychological …

Theo, what a great thing tone and colour are. And those who fail to learn to have feelings for
them will remain far removed from real life. M [auve] has taught me to see so many things …

Lemke 2 how natural language, mathematics, and visual representations form a single
unified system for meaning-making. I begin by asking what sort of semiotic beast …

In this chapter we present the main ideas of an educational Vygotskian semiotic approach,
emphasizing in particular some crucial questions about its methods of inquiry. We resort, on …

In this paper, we use the work of philosopher Gilles Châtelet to rethink the gesture/diagram
relationship and to explore the ways mathematical agency is constituted through it. We …

The meaning of a mathematical concept differs in different contexts. We can find different
practices related to the same mathematical concept, such as the concept of function …