Critical Mathematics Education: Past, Present and Future : Festschrift for Ole Skovsmose

ISBN-13: 9789460911620 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 232 str.

Helle Alr; Paola Valero; OLE Ravn

Opis

Critical mathematics education brings together a series of concerns related tomathematics and its role in society, the practices of teaching and learning ofmathematics in educational settings, and the practices of researching mathematicseducation. The work of Ole Skovsmose has provided a seminal contribution tothe shaping of those concerns in the international community of mathematicseducators and mathematics education researchers. This book gathers contributionsof researchers from five continents, for whom critical mathematics education hasbeen an inspiration to think about many different topics such as the dialogical andpolitical dimensions of teacher education, mathematical modeling, the philosophy ofmathematics from social and political perspectives, teaching practices in classrooms,the connection between mathematics and society, the scope and limits of criticalthinking in relation to mathematics and mathematics education, and the politicaldimension of researching mathematics education.The book is not only a tribute to Ole Skovsmoses long academic career; it is alsoa way of providing an overview of the roots of the critical mathematics educationconcerns, their current developments in different parts of the world, and their futuredirections. With a diversity of styles and forms of texts, this book is addressed to allthose teachers and researchers who would like to be introduced or would like to godeeper into the types of insights that critical mathematics education offers.