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MULTIMATHEMACY: Anthropology and Mathematics Education

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Authors:
  1. Rik Pinxten

    1. University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium

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  • Offers a unique framework for math education to match education to the varied cultural background knowledge of children
  • Focuses on culturally diverse learning strategies and worldviews in order to develop math curricula and math education
  • Links Vygotskyan views plus anthropological knowledge to a system of diversified curricula and learning strategies
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. My Horizon

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction

      • Rik Pinxten
      Pages 3-6

    3. Worldview

      • Rik Pinxten
      Pages 7-17

  3. The General Context of Education

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19
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    2. Education in a Post-industrial World

      • Rik Pinxten
      Pages 21-27

    3. Mathematics Education and Culture: Learning Theories

      • Rik Pinxten
      Pages 29-41

  4. Epistemological Questions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 43-43
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    2. Foundational Questions?

      • Rik Pinxten
      Pages 45-49

    3. Language and Thought

      • Rik Pinxten
      Pages 51-64

  5. Multimathemacy and Education

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 65-65
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    2. Multimathemacy and Education. General Principles

      • Rik Pinxten
      Pages 67-87

    3. Learning Formal Thinking in a Culture-Specific Context

      • Rik Pinxten
      Pages 89-98

    4. Complex Mathematical Activities

      • Rik Pinxten
      Pages 99-135

    5. Education in a School Context

      • Rik Pinxten
      Pages 137-146

    6. General Conclusions

      • Rik Pinxten
      Pages 147-150

  6. Learning and Capabilities

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 151-151
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    2. Appendix: Human Beings as Learners-in-Context: An “Engine” for the Capability Approach

      • Goedele A.M. De Clerck
      Pages 153-174

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 175-190
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About this book

This book defends that math education should systematically start out from the diverse out-of-school knowledge of children and develop trajectories from there to the Academic Mathematics   tower of knowledge. Learning theories of the sociocultural school (Vygotsky and on) are used here, and ethnographic knowledge from around the world is shown to offer a rich and varied base for curricula. The book takes a political stand against the exclusively western focus  in OECD analyses and proposals on math education. 

This book aims at agents in education and social actions in every cultural environment. But it is also attractive to mathematicians, anthropologists and other specialists. It offers a broad and scholarly view of knowledge and culture and a very original  transcultural and transdisciplinarian approach to education.

Ubiratan D'Ambrosio, UNICAMP/Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil


Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium

    Rik Pinxten

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: MULTIMATHEMACY: Anthropology and Mathematics Education

  • Authors: Rik Pinxten

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26255-0

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-26253-6Published: 28 December 2015

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-79917-9Published: 27 March 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-26255-0Published: 16 December 2015

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXI, 190

  • Topics: Mathematics Education, Educational Psychology, Sociology of Education

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