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Mathematics Education as a Matter of Identity

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Agency; Discourse; Identity; Identity-work; Positioning; Selfhood; Subject; Subjectivity

Introduction

“Mathematics education as a matter of identity” is an emergent field where selfhood and the mathematical subject are being theorized as the effect of lived experiences in institutions such as family, school, media, or church. Identity and its associated term subjectivity are embryonic in varied theoretical and activist arenas ranging from sociocultural psychology, psychoanalysis, cultural studies, poststructuralism, postcolonialism, new materialisms, or arts-based research. Emphasis on the “question of the subject” facilitates the problematizing of a “knowing self” as the effect of politics of difference, diversity, language, discourse, body, power, authority, agency, justice, and emancipation or as the product of affective politics connected to consumption habits and entertainment desires.

Up until today, “identity” persists the status of a ubiquitous concept in social...

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. University of Thessaly, Volos, Thessaly, Greece

    Anna Chronaki

  2. Malmö University, Malmö, Sweden

    Anna Chronaki

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  1. University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

    Michael A. Peters

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  1. Department of Mathematics and Science Education, Stockholm University, Svante Arrhenius Väg 20A, 114 18, Stockholm, Sweden

    Paola Valero

  2. Graduate Program on Education, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, Sao Leopoldo, Brazil

    Gelsa Knijnik

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Chronaki, A. (2017). Mathematics Education as a Matter of Identity. In: Peters, M.A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-588-4_517

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