Critical issues in mathematics education - Ernest, Paul.; Greer, Brian; Sriraman, Bharath (Charlotte, N.C. : IAP, 2009)
Machine generated contents note: SECTION 1 MATHEMATICS EDUCATION: FOR WHAT AND WHY? -- 1. What is Mathematics Education For? / Brian Greer -- 2. Ethical Responsibility and the "What" and "Why" of Mathematics Education in a Global Context / Bill Atweh -- 3. Demathematising Effect of Technology: Calling for Critical Competence / Eva Jablonka -- 4. Mathematical Literacy: Issues for Engagement from the South African Experience of Curriculum Implementation / Hamsa Venkat -- 5. Purpose of School Mathematics: Perspectives of Colombian Mathematics Teachers / Cecilia Agudelo-Valderrama -- 6. Teaching Mathematics with and for Creativity: An Intercultural Perspective / Roza Leikin -- 7. Whose Mathematics Education?: Mathematical Discourses as Cultural Matricide? / Fiona Walls -- 8. Tension between What Mathematics Education Should Be For and What It Is Actually For / Alexandre Pais -- 9. Mathematics Education: For Whom? / Monica Mesquita -- SECTION 2 GLOBALIZATION AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY -- 10. Mathematics Education Ideologies and Globalization / Paul Ernest -- 11. What is This Thing Called Social Justice and What Does it Have to Do With Us in the Context of Globalisation? / Bill Atweh -- 12. Defrosting and Re-Frosting the Ideology of Pure Mathematics: An Infusion of Eastern-Western Perspectives on Conceptualising a Socially Just Mathematics Education / Peter Charles Taylor -- 13. Mathematics Education and the Brazilian Landless Movement: Three Different Mathematics in the Context of the Struggle for Social Justice / Gelsa Knijnik -- 14. Kerala Mathematics and Its Possible Transmission to Europe / George Gheverghese Joseph -- 15. Philosophy of Mathematics, Values, and Keralese Mathematics / Paul Ernest -- SECTION 3 MATHEMATICS, EDUCATION, AND SOCIETY -- 16. Values and the Social Responsibility of Mathematics / Paul Ernest.
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