Asphalt Children and City Streets : A Life, a City, and a Case Study of History, Culture, and Ethnomathematics in Sao Paulo

ISBN-13: 9789460916328 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 172 str.

M. Nica Mesquita; Sal Restivo; Ubiratan D'Ambrosio

Opis

THIS WORK EXPLORES THE URBAN EXPERIENCES OF STREET CHILDREN IN SAO PAULO, BRAZIL THROUGH THE MATHEMATICAL EPISTEMIC REGIMES AT THE CORE OF THEIRSURVIVAL STRATEGIES. WE ALSO DRAW ATTENTION TO THE SITUATION OF STREETCHILDREN ACROSS TIME, SPACE, CULTURE, AND HISTORY. OUR GOAL IS TORECOGNIZE, UNDERSTAND, AND VALIDATE FORMS OF MATHEMATICS CONSTRUCTED ANDUSED OUTSIDE OF THE ESTABLISHED INSTITUTIONS OF MATHEMATICAL PRODUCTION.WE BASE OUR ANALYSIS ON "THE MATHEMATICAL IMAGINATION", WHICH DRAWSTOGETHER SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONISM AND ETHNOMATHEMATICS. THEORETICALLY, WEDRAW HEAVILY ON THE DURKHEIMIAN TRADITION IN SOCIOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY.WE FOCUS ON A FORM OF PRACTICE THAT LINKS THE FORMAL AND THE INFORMAL INORDER TO REALIZE THE FULL POWER OF MATHEMATICAL KNOWLEDGE AS A SOCIALTHING (IN DURKHEIMS SENSE), A PRODUCT OF THE COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESSTHAT EXPRESSES COLLECTIVE REALITIES AND A CATEGORY OF KNOWLEDGE PRESENTIN EVERY CULTURE. THIS IS AS TRUE FOR MATHEMATICS AT THE MARGINS AS IT IS FOR PROFESSIONAL MATHEMATICS. OUR WORK CONTRIBUTES TO AN EMERGINGPOLITICAL MANIFESTO OF THE MARGINAL THAT DEMONSTRATES THE SOCIALREALITIES AND SOCIAL POWER OF THEIR MATHEMATICS. THIS BOOK SHOULD BE OFINTEREST TO SOCIAL SCIENTISTS, STUDENTS OF MATHEMATICS ANDETHNOMATHEMATICS, AND EVERYONE INTERESTED IN THE SITUATION OFMARGINALIZED CHILDREN.