A challenge in mathematics education research is to coordinate different analyses to develop a more comprehensive account of teaching and learning. I contribute to these efforts by expanding the constructs in Cobb and Yackel's (1996) interpretive framework that allow for coordinating social and individual perspectives. This expansion involves four…

This research dealt with the social constitution of learning in classroom settings, attempting to reveal Bruner's (1990, 1996) folk psychology or folk pedagogy in everyday teaching and learning processes. Specifically, it focused on how the reasons or arguments for completing activities emerge while children are attempting to solve a given…