Opening the cage : critique and politics of mathematics education /
The picture on the front of this book is an illustration for Totakahini: The tale of the parrot, by Rabindranath Tagore, in which he satirized education as a magnificent golden cage. Opening the cage addresses mathematics education as a complex socio-political phenomenon, exploring the vast terrain...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Rotterdam ; Boston :
SensePublishers,
©2012.
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| Series: | New directions in mathematics and science education ;
v. 23. |
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Part 1. Introduction: Seeing The Cage? The Emergence of Critical Mathematics Education / Ole Skovsmose, Ole Skovsmose and Brian Greer
- Part I. Mathematics Education is Politics
- Mathematics As A Weapon in The Struggle / Eric Rico Gutstein
- A Critical Approach to Equity / Alexandre Pais
- The Role of Mathematics in The Destruction of Communities, and What We Can Do To Reverse This Process, Including Using Mathematics / Munir Jamil Fasheh
- The Usa Mathematics Advisory Panel: A Case study / Brian Greer
- Part II. Borderland Positions
- Mathematics Teaching and Learning of Immigrant Students: An Overview of The Research Field Across Multiple Settings / Marta Civil
- Learning of Mathematics Among Pakistani Immigrant Children in Barcelona: A Sociocultural Perspective / Sikunder Ali Baber
- Mathematics Education Across Two Language Contexts: A Political Perspective / Mamokgethi Setati and Núria Planas
- Genealogy of Mathematics Education in Two Brazilian Rural Forms of Life / Gelsa Knijnik and Fernanda Wanderer
- On Becoming and Being A Critical Black Scholar in Mathematics Education: The Politics of Race and Identity / Danny Bernard Martin and Maisie Gholson
- Totakahini: The Tale of The Parrot / Swapna Mukhopadhyay
- Part III. Mathematics and Power
- The Hegemony of Mathematics / Brian Greer and Swapna Mukhopadhyay
- Bringing Critical Mathematics to Work: But Can Numbers Mobilise? / Keiko Yasukawa and Tony Brown
- Shaping and Being Shaped By Mathematics: Examining A Technology of Rationality / Keiko Yasukawa, Ole Skovsmose, Ole Skovsmose and Ole Ravn
- Part IV. Searching For Possibilities
- Potentials, Pitfalls, and Discriminations: Curriculum Conceptions Revisited / Eva Jablonka and Uwe Gellert
- A Philosophical Perspective on Contextualisations in Mathematics Education / Annica Andersson and Ole Ravn
- Mathematics Education and Democratic Participation Between The Critical and The Ethical: A Socially Response-Able Approach / Bill Atweh
- Towards A Critical Mathematics Education Research Programme? / Ole Skovsmose and Ole Skovsmose
- Opening The Cage? Critical Agency in The Face of Uncertainty / Ole Skovsmose, Ole Skovsmose and Brian Greer.
