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Ethics and Mathematics Education

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

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  • Jun 2024

Overview

  • Presents an emergent field of research within mathematics education (and mathematics)
  • Extends across theory, critique and classroom practices in mathematics education
  • Includes valuable contributions from the best-known international researchers in the field

Part of the book series: Advances in Mathematics Education (AME)

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Keywords

  • Ethics and mathematics
  • Ethics and social justice in mathematics
  • Philosophy of mathematics education
  • Ethics of mathematics education research
  • Ethic-onto-epistemology for mathematics education
  • Ethics as first philosophy of mathematics education
  • Ethical critique of mathematics education
  • Authority, power and control in mathematics education & teaching
  • Cruel optimism and death in mathematics education
  • Relational ethics in mathematics
  • Ethics, teachers and the teaching of mathematics
  • Ethics and professional judgement in assessment in mathematics
  • Ethical content in the teaching and learning of mathematics
  • Foucauldian ethics and mathematics
  • Moral orders that govern modern souls in school mathematics
  • Ethical critique of mathematics education
  • Ethics framework for mathematics teachers
  • Ethics in mathematics teaching and learning
  • The good, the bad and the ugly in mathematics education
  • Beneficence, maleficence, autonomy in mathematics

About this book

This edited volume is an inquiry into the ethics of mathematics education, and to a lesser extent, the ethics of mathematics. The imposition of mathematics for all raises questions of ethics. What are the ethics of teaching school mathematics? What are the costs as well as the benefits? What are the ethical issues raised by the official aims of mathematics teaching, the planned curriculum, the pedagogies employed in school and college mathematics and the assessment systems? These questions are addressed in the book as well as what systems of ethics we might use. The volume ventures into a burgeoning new field. It offers a unique set of investigations, both theoretical and in terms of practices. It announces the ethics of mathematics education as a new subfield of research and includes valuable contributions from many of the best-known researchers in mathematics education; additionally, it is a valuable resource for students, teachers and researchers in the field. This is an enduring and classic source book in the field. From the wisdom of leading scholars to the little heard voices of students, this collection offers the reader many striking new insights into the ethics of mathematics and education.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom

    Paul Ernest

About the editor

Dr. Paul Ernest was appointed as the first Professor of the Philosophy of Mathematics Education at the University of Exeter, UK, where he is now emeritus professor. His books include The Philosophy of Mathematics Education, cited in more than three thousand scholarly publications, and Social Constructivism as a Philosophy of Mathematics, with over 1000 citations. He founded and edits the open access Philosophy of Mathematics Education Journal.

 

 

 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Ethics and Mathematics Education

  • Book Subtitle: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

  • Editors: Paul Ernest

  • Series Title: Advances in Mathematics Education

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-58682-8Due: 23 June 2024

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-58685-9Due: 23 June 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-58683-5Due: 23 June 2024

  • Series ISSN: 1869-4918

  • Series E-ISSN: 1869-4926

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 550

  • Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 12 illustrations in colour

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