Critical Mathematics Education
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Critical Mathematics Education

Theory, Praxis, and Reality

  1. 361 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Critical Mathematics Education

Theory, Praxis, and Reality

About this book

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. It argues that history, society, and politics have shaped mathematics—not only through its applications and uses but also through molding its concepts, methods, and even mathematical truth and proof, the very means of establishing truth. Critical mathematics education also attacks the neutrality of the teaching and learning of mathematics, showing how these are value-laden activities indissolubly linked to social and political life. Instead, it argues that the values of openness, dialogicality, criticality towards received opinion, empowerment of the learner, and social/political engagement and citizenship are necessary dimensions of the teaching and learning of mathematics, if it is to contribute towards democracy and social justice.

This book draws together critical theoretic contributions on mathematics and mathematics education from leading researchers in the field. Recurring themes include: The natures of mathematics and critical mathematics education, issues of epistemology and ethics; Ideology, the hegemony of mathematics, ethnomathematics, and real-life education; Capitalism, globalization, politics, social class, habitus, citizenship and equity.

The book demonstrates the links between these themes and the discipline of mathematics, and its critical teaching and learning. The outcome is a groundbreaking collection unified by a shared concern with critical perspectives of mathematics and education, and of the ways they impact on practice.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Critical Mathematics Education
  3. Cognition, Equity, & Society:International Perspectives
  4. Critical Mathematics Education
  5. Copyright
  6. CONTENTS
  7. FOREWORD
  8. INTRODUCTION: CRITICAL MATHEMATICS EDUCATION
  9. CHAPTER 1: MATHEMATICS
  10. CHAPTER 2: ETHNOMATHEMATICS
  11. CHAPTER 3: MATHEMATICS EDUCATION IDEOLOGIES AND GLOBALIZATION
  12. CHAPTER 4: SCRIPTING THE WORLD IN MATHEMATICS AND ITS ETHICAL IMPLICATIONS
  13. CHAPTER 5: THE SCOPE AND LIMITS OF CRITICAL MATHEMATICS EDUCATION1
  14. CHAPTER 6: THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM
  15. CHAPTER 7: CONNECTING THE NOTION OF FOREGROUND IN CRITICAL MATHEMATICS EDUCATION WITH THE THEORY OF HABITUS
  16. CHAPTER 8: THE HEGEMONY OF ENGLISH MATHEMATICS
  17. CHAPTER 9: SCHOOL CURRICULUM ANDDIFFERENT MATHEMATICS LANGUAGE GAMES
  18. CHAPTER 10: ETHNOMATHEMATICS AS A HUMAN RIGHT
  19. CHAPTER 11: NEGOTIATING CRITICAL PEDAGOGICAL DISCOURSES
  20. CHAPTER12: CRITICAL MATHEMATICS EDUCATION IN THE CONTEXT OF “REAL-LIFE EDUCATION”
  21. CHAPTER13: THE ROLE OF MATHEMATICS IN POLITICS AS AN ISSUE FOR MATHEMATICS TEACHING
  22. CHAPTER 14: MATHEMATICS EDUCATION AND CITIZENSHIP IN CAPITALISM
  23. CHAPTER 15: ARE THERE VIABLE CONNECTIONS BETWEEN MATHEMATICS, MATHEMATICAL PROOF AND DEMOCRACY?
  24. CHAPTER 16: THE PURSUIT OF DEMOCRACY IN MATHEMATICS AND MATHEMATICS EDUCATION
  25. CHAPTER 17: FUTURES AT STAKE
  26. About the Authors

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