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View article: Teacher education encounters climate change and critical mathematics education
Teacher education encounters climate change and critical mathematics education Open
In this study we discuss the complexity faced by a teacher when Critical Mathematics Education (CME) and climate change are being brought into a specific teaching setting that is part of a teacher education program a large university in Sw…
View article: The Masters: Speculative Assemblages of Mathematics Education as Enclosures and Commons with Ursula K. Le Guin’s Feminist Utopian Anarchism
The Masters: Speculative Assemblages of Mathematics Education as Enclosures and Commons with Ursula K. Le Guin’s Feminist Utopian Anarchism Open
The present lecture engages a speculative reading of “The Masters”, a science-fiction novel written by Ursula K. Le Guin to narrate a state where citizens are governed by the law of negating mathematics education. In this oppressive contex…
View article: Democratic Nowtopias from the Educational Commonsverse in Greece
Democratic Nowtopias from the Educational Commonsverse in Greece Open
The chapter examines the role educational commons can play in addressing inequities, advancing democracy, and fostering inclusion by allowing teaching and learning to be shaped by students and teachers through values of equality, freedom, …
View article: Bringing Critical Mathematics Education and Actor–Network Theory to a Statistics Course in Mathematics Teacher Education: Actants for Articulating Complexity in Student Teachers’ Foregrounds
Bringing Critical Mathematics Education and Actor–Network Theory to a Statistics Course in Mathematics Teacher Education: Actants for Articulating Complexity in Student Teachers’ Foregrounds Open
In this paper, we discuss how critical mathematics education (CME) and actor–network theory (ANT) come together in a mathematics teacher education course that focuses on the thematic context of climate change to study statistics. Acknowled…
View article: Becoming citizen subject in the body politic: antinomies of archaic, modern and posthuman citizenship temporalities and the political of mathematics education
Becoming citizen subject in the body politic: antinomies of archaic, modern and posthuman citizenship temporalities and the political of mathematics education Open
Mathematics education in the body politic is commonly argued as important for citizenship, the citizen and the subject but, often, the concepts remain unexamined. Based on etienne Balibar's political philosophy, the "becoming citizen subje…
View article: Onto/Epistemic Violence and Dialogicality in Translanguaging Practices Across Multilingual Mathematics Classrooms
Onto/Epistemic Violence and Dialogicality in Translanguaging Practices Across Multilingual Mathematics Classrooms Open
Background: The focus on translanguaging practices in multilingual classrooms can be seen, by and large, as responding to risks of violence entailed in diverse contexts of language use, including the teaching and learning of mathematics. H…
View article: Introduction to the work of TWG10 : Diversity and Mathematics Education: Social, Cultural and Political Challenges
Introduction to the work of TWG10 : Diversity and Mathematics Education: Social, Cultural and Political Challenges Open
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View article: Mathematics teacher agency
Mathematics teacher agency Open
Neoliberal policies dominate in many parts of the world, setting a frame within which education practices are frequently constrained. In mathematics, perhaps more than other subjects, these constraints seem to be more keenly felt, not leas…
View article: “Mathematics Is Bad for Society”
“Mathematics Is Bad for Society” Open
In this chapter, we report on a small-scale critical mathematics education project in a Swedish classroom with students of varied language backgrounds. The project departed from the student Arvid’s statement “Mathematics is bad for society…
View article: Cultural-Historical Activity Theory Travels to Greece: Actors, Contexts and Politics of Reception and Interpretation
Cultural-Historical Activity Theory Travels to Greece: Actors, Contexts and Politics of Reception and Interpretation Open
This article explores how socio-cultural, cultural-historical and activity theory approaches to education and psychology have traveled to Greece over the last three decades. It explores the history of introducing these approaches in the Gr…
View article: The Fabrication of Early Childhood Mathematics and the desired child in Sweden
The Fabrication of Early Childhood Mathematics and the desired child in Sweden Open
Swedish early years mathematics education is currently under discussion, as it is experiencing transformation on several levels. A few years ago PISA results showed that Sweden ranks below certain highly developed countries. The importance…
View article: Glossary: Collaborative Future-Making
Glossary: Collaborative Future-Making Open
Collaborative Future-Making is a research platform at the Faculty of Culture and Society at Malmö University that is concerned with how to envision, elaborate and prototype multiple, inclusive, and sustainable futures. The platform gathers…
View article: Introduction to the work of TWG10: Diversity and Mathematics Education: Social, Cultural and Political Challenges
Introduction to the work of TWG10: Diversity and Mathematics Education: Social, Cultural and Political Challenges Open
International audience
View article: De/Mathematising the Political in Mathematics Education: A De/Postcolonial Critique
De/Mathematising the Political in Mathematics Education: A De/Postcolonial Critique Open
Various interpretations have been given to the double gesture of de/mathematising in relation to a variety of social thematic contexts demarcating ‘the political’ in mathematics education. By way of theoretical intervention, we offer the b…
View article: Unfolding global/local policies, practices and/or hybrids in mathematics education worldwide: utopias, pleasures, pressures and conflicts
Unfolding global/local policies, practices and/or hybrids in mathematics education worldwide: utopias, pleasures, pressures and conflicts Open
The utopian dream of a global world is not new. It can be traced back in the 15th century navigators and 19th century colonial times and post world war peace pleas but also even earlier in ancient myths and religion narratives on the moral…
View article: Mathematics Education Out in the Rural Scape : Experimenting With Radical Democracy for Commons
Mathematics Education Out in the Rural Scape : Experimenting With Radical Democracy for Commons Open
The purpose of this paper is to discuss a pedagogic experimentation in the rural scape at a Greek village that tends to challenge the neoliberal and capitalist politics of economic austerity in the area. A group of young educated people in…
View article: Primary students’ participation in school based mathematical reasoning practices: Coordinating reciprocal teaching and systemic functional linguistics to support reasoning in the Swedish context
Primary students’ participation in school based mathematical reasoning practices: Coordinating reciprocal teaching and systemic functional linguistics to support reasoning in the Swedish context Open
The foreign language (FL) classroom can be an anxious environ- ment where students feel uncomfortable having to communicate in a language in which they feel inadequate and have little practice. Low self-efficacy in skill-specific tasks is …
View article: Language diversity in mathematics education research: a move from language as representation to politics of representation
Language diversity in mathematics education research: a move from language as representation to politics of representation Open
We discuss language diversity in mathematics education research by considering the move from a view of language as representation that strives to correlate concepts, ideas, codes and signs towards addressing the representation politics of …
View article: The Unbearable Lightness of Dis|appearing Mathematics: Or, life and reason for the citizen at times of crisis
The Unbearable Lightness of Dis|appearing Mathematics: Or, life and reason for the citizen at times of crisis Open
In the early 1960s, Ursula Le Guin wrote ‘The Masters’, a short novel that offers a sharp contrast to the ‘maths for all’ discourse of contemporary mathematics education reforms. Le Guin writes of a world – Edun – where ‘mathematical prohi…
View article: De/mathematising the political : bringing feminist de/post-coloniality to mathematics education
De/mathematising the political : bringing feminist de/post-coloniality to mathematics education Open
In this paper, we attempt to move beyond current understandings of what it means to mathematise in relation to varied social thematic contexts in mathematics education. By way of theoretical intervention, we offer the beginnings of a femin…
View article: Beyond the Box: Rethinking Gender in Mathematics Education Research – Proposal for a Symposium
Beyond the Box: Rethinking Gender in Mathematics Education Research – Proposal for a Symposium Open
Τhe present symposium is an attempt to rethink gender in mathematics education research beyond the box, and specifically the box of binaries. We consider the importance in contemporary neoliberal times of doing research in mathematics educ…
View article: Assembling MathLife Chronotopes : Street Mathematics as a Hybrid of Epistemic/Ontic Knowledge Discourses Urban Circulation in Teacher Education
Assembling MathLife Chronotopes : Street Mathematics as a Hybrid of Epistemic/Ontic Knowledge Discourses Urban Circulation in Teacher Education Open
Could mathematics teacher education courses be part of assemblages that grasp and circulate affective, sensorial, mnemonic and political temporalities going beyond a mechanistic reincarnation of thinking that deprives mathematics from the …
View article: AnthropoGeometries in the UrbanScape : Interrogating the echo of geometry
AnthropoGeometries in the UrbanScape : Interrogating the echo of geometry Open
What else could geometry may mean besides a detailed and systematic metric encounter with earth (i.e. γεωμετρία = μέτρηση γης), as the etymology of the word suggests? Could notions of ‘geometry’ become supportive towards opening up how, to…