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Mathematics Education as Dystopia: A Future Beyond.
- Source :
- Journal of Humanistic Mathematics; Jul2022, Vol. 12 Issue 2, p518-538, 21p
- Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- We argue that scholars and practitioners of mathematics education need to find new directions through recognition of its dystopic characteristics, and embrace these characteristics as both the source of challenges and method of response. This contrasts with the generally utopic approach of most scholarship in the field. We offer critical ethnomathematics education as a model, since it has its own origins in lingering dystopic legacies. A perpetual hopelessness and disempowerment is one implicit curriculum of contemporary mathematics education, where the mathematics one learns might help to describe things, yet hardly assists in transforming the reification of power and agency in society. Embracing dystopia rather than trying to circumvent it generates new questions and pathways. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- MATHEMATICS education
SCHOLARLY method
MATHEMATICS
DESPAIR
REIFICATION
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 21598118
- Volume :
- 12
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Humanistic Mathematics
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 159180282
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.5642/jhummath.sqek5024