MULTIMATHEMACY: Anthropology and Mathematics 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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Pinxten, Rik (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
Edition:1st ed. 2016.
Subjects:
Mathematics-Study and teaching .
Educational psychology.
Educational sociology.
Mathematics Education.
Educational Psychology.
Sociology of Education.
Online Access:Texto Completo
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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