Overview
- Focuses on the material conditions of teaching and learning
- Details features of social life and their influence on mathematics teaching, learning and achievement
- Provides an overview of the research on the social and political dimensions of mathematics education
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: ICME-13 Topical Surveys (ICME13TS)
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This book examines the current thinking on five critical social and political areas in mathematics education. It focuses on material conditions in teaching and learning, and details features of social life and their influence on mathematics teaching, learning and achievement. Following an introduction, the first section addresses equitable access and participation in quality mathematics education. It explores this issue in different contexts and from different ideological perspectives. The second section traces the emergence and development of the notion of activism in mathematics education in theory, in the literature, in research and in practice. The third section then moves on to explore current research on the political forces at work in identity, subjectivity and (dis)ability within mathematics education, showing how emphasis on language and discourse provides information for this research, and how new directions are being pursued to address the diverse material conditions thatshape learning experiences in mathematics education. Economic factors behind mathematics achievement form the topic of section four, which examines the political dimensions of mathematics education through the influence of national and global economic structures. The final section addresses distribution of power and cultural regimes of truth, based on the premise that although often deemed apolitical, mathematics and mathematics education are highly political institutions in our society. The book concludes with a summary and recommendations for the future.
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Book Title: Social and Political Dimensions of Mathematics Education
Book Subtitle: Current Thinking
Authors: Murad Jurdak, Renuka Vithal, Elizabeth de Freitas, Peter Gates, David Kollosche
Series Title: ICME-13 Topical Surveys
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29655-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) if applicable and The Author(s) 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-29654-8Published: 13 April 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-29655-5Published: 05 April 2016
Series ISSN: 2366-5947
Series E-ISSN: 2366-5955
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 37
Topics: Mathematics Education, Sociology of Education, Educational Policy and Politics