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The Disorder of Mathematics Education

Challenging the Sociopolitical Dimensions of Research

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Editors:
  1. Hauke Straehler-Pohl

    1. Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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  2. Nina Bohlmann

    1. Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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  3. Alexandre Pais

    1. Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, United Kingdom

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  • Presents new insights into the role of mathematics education in shaping contemporary society
  • Celebrates diversity and dissent as an intrinsic feature of mathematics education research
  • Includes multi-national perspectives on the "sociopolitical paradigm" in mathematics education

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Welcome to the Jungle. An Orientation Guide to the Disorder of Mathematics Education

    • Hauke Straehler-Pohl, Alexandre Pais, Nina Bohlmann
    Pages 1-15

  3. What Bonds Us to Mathematics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17
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    2. Mathematics Education as Praying Wheel: How Adults Avoid Mathematics by Pushing It onto Children

      • Sverker Lundin, Ditte Storck Christensen
      Pages 19-34

    3. De|mathematisation and Ideology in Times of Capitalism: Recovering Critical Distance

      • Hauke Straehler-Pohl
      Pages 35-52

    4. The Narcissism of Mathematics Education

      • Alexandre Pais
      Pages 53-63

  5. Disordering School Mathematics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 171-171
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    2. A Socio-critical Analysis of Students’ Perceptions of Mathematics

      • David Kollosche
      Pages 173-189

    3. Interrupting Passivity: Attempts to Interrogate Political Agency in Palestinian School Mathematics

      • Jehad Alshwaikh, Hauke Straehler-Pohl
      Pages 191-208

    4. Assessment in Mathematics Education: A Gatekeeping Dispositive

      • Lisa Björklund Boistrup
      Pages 209-230

    5. Expressions of the Commodity Form: Alienation and Mathematics Education

      • David Swanson
      Pages 231-249

    6. The Effects of School Geometry in the Shaping of a Desired Child

      • Melissa Andrade-Molina, Paola Valero
      Pages 251-270

  6. Disordering the Role of the Mathematics Education Researcher

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 271-271
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About this book

Research within a socio-political paradigm or “turn” has been gradually recognized and institutionalized as an important part of mathematics education. This book focuses on the neglected problems, tensions and contradictions evoked by this process. The authors do this by challenging current regimes of truth about mathematics education; by identifying how recent technological developments challenge or suspend contemporary conceptions of mathematics education; by critiquing the ideological entanglement of mathematics, its education and schooling with capitalism; by self-reflective analyses of researchers' impacts on shaping what is and can be perceived as the practice of mathematics education (research); and by confronting main-stream mathematics education with socio-political contexts that are usually neglected. In this way, "mathematical rationality" becomes contextualized within contemporary society, where it reproduces itself through technologies, social practices, media and other spheres of social life.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Hauke Straehler-Pohl, Nina Bohlmann

  • Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, United Kingdom

    Alexandre Pais

About the editors

Hauke Straehler Pohl works as a researcher and teacher educator at the Freie Universität Berlin. His research interests evolve around the sociology of, the politics of, and the philosophy of education in general as well as in mathematics education in particular. His particular interest is devoted to the social pathologies that impede schools from creating the conditions for a “good life” within the Social for everyone.

Nina Bohlmann works as a researcher at the Faculty of Education, Freie Universität Berlin. She is mainly interested in issues of social inequality with a focus on mathematics education and investigates mechanisms of the reproduction of social inequality in classroom interaction. She aims at a further theorizing and approaches this research area mainly from a micro-sociological perspective. In addition to her research she is involved in the teacher training of pre-service primary school teachers.
Alexandre works in Manchester (Faculty of Education, Manchester Metropolitan University) where he reads, writes, teaches and talks about all aspects of educational research amenable to philosophical investigation. He is a scholar of Lacan and Žižek.



Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Disorder of Mathematics Education

  • Book Subtitle: Challenging the Sociopolitical Dimensions of Research

  • Editors: Hauke Straehler-Pohl, Nina Bohlmann, Alexandre Pais

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-34006-7

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-34005-0Published: 31 August 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-81654-8Published: 12 June 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-34006-7Published: 23 August 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 329

  • Number of Illustrations: 20 b/w illustrations, 12 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Mathematics Education, Educational Psychology

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