Critical mathematics education : theory, praxis, and reality

Mathematics is traditionally seen as the most neutral of disciplines, the furthest removed from the arguments and controversy of politics and social life. However, critical mathematics challenges these assumptions and actively attacks the idea that mathematics is pure, objective, and value-neutral....

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Other Authors Ernest, Paul (Editor), Sriraman, Bharath (Editor), Ernest, Nuala (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, Inc., [2016]
SeriesCognition, equity, & society.
Subjects
Mathematics > Study and teaching.
Educational sociology.
Education > Teaching > Subjects > General.
Teaching of a specific subject.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806610440
DOI10.1108/978-1-68123-261-4
Physical Description1 online resource (xii, 347 pages) : illustrations

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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Paul Ernest and Bharath Sriraman
  • Introduction / Bharath Sriraman
  • Chapter 1. Mathematics: A critical rationality? / Ole Skovsmose
  • Chapter 2. Ethnomathematics: A response to the changing role of mathematics in society / Ubiratan D'Ambrosio
  • Chapter 3. Mathematics education ideologies and globalization / Paul Ernest
  • Chapter 4. Scripting the world in mathematics and its ethical implications / Keiko Yasukawa, Ole Skovsmose and Ole Ravn
  • Chapter 5. The scope and limits of critical mathematics education / Paul Ernest
  • Chapter 6. The elephant in the room: Equity, social class, and mathematics / Robyn Jorgensen
  • Chapter 7. Connecting the notion of foreground in critical mathematics education with the theory of habitus / Tine Wedege
  • Chapter 8. The hegemony of English mathematics / Brian Greer and Swapna Mukhopadhyay
  • Chapter 9. School curriculum and different mathematics language games: A study at a Brazil ian agricultural-technical school / Ieda Maria Giongo and Gelsa Knijnik
  • Chapter 10. Ethnomathematics as a human right / Karen Francois
  • Chapter 11. Negotiating critical pedagogical discourses stories of contexts, mathematics and agency / Annica Andersson and Paola Valero
  • Chapter 12. Critical mathematics education in the context of real-life education / Helle Alrø and Marit Johnsen-Høines
  • Chapter 13. The role of mathematics in politics as an issue for mathematics teaching / Mario Sánchez Aguilar and Morten Blomhøj
  • Chapter 14. Investigating critical routes: The politics of mathematics education and citizenship in capitalism / Maria Nikolakaki
  • Chapter 15. Are there viable connections between mathematics, mathematical proof and democracy? / D. F. Almeida
  • Chapter 16. A historical analysis of democracy in mathematics and mathematics education in European culture / M. Sencer Corlu
  • Chapter 17. Futures at stake: Children's identity work in the force field of social valorization of school mathematics / Troels Lange
  • About the authors.

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