MULTIMATHEMACY: Anthropology and Mathematics Education

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

Springer Verlag

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