Democracy and Mathematics Education: Rethinking School Math for Our Troubled Times

ISBN-13: 9780367608200 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 200 str.

Kurt Stemhagen; Catherine Henney

Opis

In Democracy and Mathematics Education, Kurt Stemhagen and Catherine Henney develop a way of thinking about the nature and purposes of math that is inclusive, participatory, and thoroughly human.

Spis treści

Part I The Problem 1. Introduction: Rethinking Math for our Troubled Times 2. Mathematics Education in Historical and Contemporary Contexts Part II The Nature of Mathematics: Two Competing Perspectives 3. Absolutist Mathematics: The Infallibilist/Apriorist Thesis 4. Non-Absolutist Mathematics: The Constructivist Thesis Part III The Alternative: Democratic Mathematics Education 5. Evolutionary/Pragmatic Perspectives 6. Democratic Mathematics Education Part IV Enactment: Philosophy of Mathematics in and out of the Classroom 7. Philosophies of Mathematics: Consequences and Classroom Expressions 8. Mathematics Education Today: Making Sense of Critical and Democratic Approaches 9. Democracy, Mathematics, and Education Revisited