| Multimathemacy: Anthropology and Mathematics Education Softcover Repri Edition Contributor(s): Pinxten, Rik (Author) |
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ISBN: 3319799177 ISBN-13: 9783319799179 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | Educational Psychology - Education | Teaching Methods & Materials - Mathematics - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Dewey: 306.43 |
| Physical Information: 0.45" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.67 lbs) 190 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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 |