"The book's analysis of the sociopolitical dimensions in mathematics education highlights the challenges and the action necessary to make mathematics for all a reality. ... The book is worth the read for those mathematics educators who seek, desire, and act on ways to provide mathematics for all. This book addresses the sociopolitical dimensions from all directions: theory, research, practice, and policy." (Colleen M. Eddy, Educational Studies in Mathematics, Vol. 99, 2018)
1. Mainstreaming of the Sociopolitical in Mathematics Education,
Renuka Vithal and Murad Jurdak
Part I Theoretical Perspectives on the Sociopolitical in Mathematics Education
2. Integrating the Sociocultural and the Sociopolitical in Mathematics Education
Murad Jurdak
3. Towards an Ethics of Mathematical Application
Felix Lensing & Hauke Straehler-Pohl
4. How to be a Political Social Change Mathematics Education Activist
Peter Appelbaum
Part II Researchers in the Sociopolitical in Mathematics Education
5. Recognising and Identifying the Participant and Researcher in Mathematics Education Research: A Sociopolitical Act
Lisa Darragh
6. Truth, Power and Capitalist Accumulation in Mathematics Education
Alexandre Pais
PART III Practices in the Sociopolitical in Mathematics Education
7. Teaching Financial Mathematics Through a Critical Approach in a University Environment
Celso Ribeiro Campos, Aurélio Hess, Renata Moura Sena
8. Mathematics Education for Social Justice: A Case Study
Gustavo Bruno, Natalia Ruiz-López, César Sáenz de Castro
9. Outcome of the Market: The Outdated Mathematics Teacher
Alex Montecino
Part IV Policy and the Sociopolitical in Mathematics Education
10. Mathematics Curricula: Issues of Access and Quality
Tamsin Meaney
11. Policy Production through the Media: The Case of More Mathematics in Early Childhood Education
Troels Lange and Tamsin Meaney
12. “Now There’s Everything to Stop You”: Teacher Autonomy Then and Now
Gill Adams and Hilary Povey
This book documents and expands on the diverse social and political dimensions of mathematics education issues, concerns, perspectives, contexts, and approaches presented in Topic Study Group 34 of the 13thInternational Congress on Mathematical Education (ICME 13). The book also argues for and promotes the mainstreaming of the sociopolitical dimensions of mathematics education through an ongoing critique and inquiry into content, policies, practices and theories.
Accordingly, the main theme throughout the book is captured and illuminated by bringing voices from the margin to the mainstream. In this respect it is both an aspirational and a reality, as evidenced by the increasing references to the sociopolitical dimensions in o1`ther areas of mathematics education—for example, in several of the plenary presentations at the ICME 13. The authors have reflected on their ideas with a view to orienting and enhancing research in the sociopolitical dimensions of mathematics education that is grounded in current education systems within their specific sociocultural contexts.