Multimathemacy : anthropology and mathematics education
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Multimathemacy : anthropology and mathematics education
Springer, c2016
Available at 2 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-184) and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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
Table of Contents
Foreword.- Introduction. What ifs.- Worldview: sphere and worldview.-Part I: The general context of education.- 1. Education in a post-industrial world.- 2. Math education and culture: learning theories.- Part II: Epistemological questions on AM and EM.- 3. Foundational issues? Whitehead s Multiperspectivalness.- 4. Language and thought.- Part III: Ethnomathematics and education.- 5. Multimathemacy and education: general principles.- 6. Learning formal thinking in a culture-specific context.- 7. Combined mathematical operations: Locating and representing, measuring, designing, traditional building, archaeological digging, dancing, computer designing, storytelling, buying and selling.- 8. Education in a school context.- 9. General conclusions.- 10. Appendix: Human Beings as Learners-in-Context: A Motor for the Capability Approach.- Bibliography.
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