MULTIMATHEMACY: Anthropology and Mathematics Education
Pinxten Rik
1. 1.
Worldview
2.
Education in a Post-industrial World
3. Mathematics Education and Culture: Learning Theories
4. Foundational Questions?
5. Language and Thought
6. Multimathemacy and Education.
General Principles
7. Learning Formal Thinking in a
Culture-Specific Context
8. Complex Mathematical Activities
9. Education in a School Context
10. General Conclusions
Appendix: Human Beings as Learners-in-Context:
An “Engine” for the Capability Approach
Clerck, Goedele A.M.
This book
defends that math education should systematically start out from the diverse
out-of-school knowledge of children and develop trajectories from there to the
Academic Mathematics tower of
knowledge. Learning theories of the sociocultural school (Vygotsky and on) are
used here, and ethnographic knowledge from around the world is shown to offer a
rich and varied base for curricula. The book takes a political stand against
the exclusively western focus in OECD
analyses and proposals on math education.
This book
aims at agents in education and social actions in every cultural environment.
But it is also attractive to mathematicians, anthropologists and other
specialists. It offers a broad and scholarly view of knowledge and culture and
a very original transcultural and
transdisciplinarian approach to education.
Ubiratan D'Ambrosio, UNICAMP/Universidade Estadual de Campinas,
Brazil
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