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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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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Pinxten, Rik (Auteur)
Collectivité auteur: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
Édition:1st ed. 2016.
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Accès en ligne:Texto Completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.