MULTIMATHEMACY: Anthropology and Mathematics Education

• Main Author: Pinxten, Rik (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Subjects: Education.; Mathematics > Study and teaching.; Educational sociology.; Educational psychology.; Education > Psychology.; Education and sociology.; Sociology, Educational.; Mathematics Education.; Educational Psychology.; Sociology of 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...

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.