Dalene M Swanson
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View article: Toward a reflexive mathematics education within local and global relations: thinking from critical scholarship on mathematics education within the sociopolitical, global citizenship education and decoloniality
Toward a reflexive mathematics education within local and global relations: thinking from critical scholarship on mathematics education within the sociopolitical, global citizenship education and decoloniality Open
Education commonly is positioned as central to developing citizens who can address so-called global challenges. Responses are identifiable in global citizenship education, which may recruit mathematics into interdisciplinary relationships,…
View article: Global Citizenship Education / Learning for Sustainability: tensions, ‘flaws’, and contradictions as critical moments of possibility and radical hope in educating for alternative futures
Global Citizenship Education / Learning for Sustainability: tensions, ‘flaws’, and contradictions as critical moments of possibility and radical hope in educating for alternative futures Open
Global citizenship’ entered public parlance prominently during heightened globalisation. To be a citizen of this new globalised, interconnected world was to be a subject of capital. Like Janus, a subject of this neoliberal world order was …
View article: (Re)Imagining Spatialities for Equity in Mathematics Education: MES11
(Re)Imagining Spatialities for Equity in Mathematics Education: MES11 Open
Presentation of the conference paper: Le Roux, K., & Swanson, D. (2021). (Re)imagining spatialities for equity in mathematics education. In D. Kollosche (Ed.), Exploring new ways to connect: Proceedings of the Eleventh International Mathem…
View article: Unpacking the Purposes and Potential of Interdisciplinary STEM
Unpacking the Purposes and Potential of Interdisciplinary STEM Open
This chapter traces the development of STEM advocacy as a globalizing modernist discourse based in national competitive wealth creation agendas. It therefore addresses the drivers for STEM in schools by way of understanding state and indus…
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: Alterities of global citizenship: education, human rights, and everyday bordering
Alterities of global citizenship: education, human rights, and everyday bordering Open
Assumptions abound regarding societal embetterment at the heart of global interconnections and the distributions of knowledge through international educational organisations and structures worldwide (Swanson, 2013; 2015). In schools and hi…
View article: Ethics, power, internationalisation and the postcolonial: a Foucauldian discourse analysis of policy documents in two Scottish universities
Ethics, power, internationalisation and the postcolonial: a Foucauldian discourse analysis of policy documents in two Scottish universities Open
This paper provides a critical discussion of internationalisation in Higher Education (HE), and exemplifies a process of uncovering the investments in power and ideology through the partial analysis of four strategic internationalisation d…
View article: Inclusion as Ethics, Equity and/or Human Rights? Spotlighting School Mathematics Practices in Scotland and Globally
Inclusion as Ethics, Equity and/or Human Rights? Spotlighting School Mathematics Practices in Scotland and Globally Open
Mathematics education has been notoriously slow at interpreting inclusion in ways that are not divisive. Dominant views of educational inclusion in school mathematics classrooms have been shaped by social constructions of ability. These pa…
View article: Nation state, popul(ar)ism, and discourses of global citizenship: examples from Scotland’s Curriculum for Excellence
Nation state, popul(ar)ism, and discourses of global citizenship: examples from Scotland’s Curriculum for Excellence Open
Through a critical examination of Scottish curricular policies and practices, this chapter addresses the ways in which nationalist popul(ar)ism assembles a range of identities, discourses and representations of the Scottish nation. It argu…
View article: Mathematics Education and the Problem of Political Forgetting: In Search of Research Methodologies for Global Crisis
Mathematics Education and the Problem of Political Forgetting: In Search of Research Methodologies for Global Crisis Open
First paragraph: More and more, standardized, efficiencies-based, and surveillance-driven modus operandi are prescriptively defining the interests of the individual and collective in terms of market-driven imperatives in consonance with th…
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: Ubuntu, Radical Hope, and an Onto-epistemology of Conscience
Ubuntu, Radical Hope, and an Onto-epistemology of Conscience Open
Via the evocation of a lived narrative related to witnessing Middle Eastern refugees’ attempts at entering into the European Union in September 2015, I draw connections between the political, ethical, spiritual and embodied, recognising th…
View article: Alternative Understanding of Equity and Their Relationship to Ethics
Alternative Understanding of Equity and Their Relationship to Ethics Open
This paper discusses three distinct, yet overlapping and often exchangeable discourses of equity, diversity and social justice in mathematics education. Like all discourses in education, they are social constructs and have been subjected t…
View article: Alternative Understanding of Equity and Their Relationship to Ethics (Forthcoming)
Alternative Understanding of Equity and Their Relationship to Ethics (Forthcoming) Open
This paper discusses three distinct, yet overlapping and often exchangeable discourses of equity, diversity and social justice in mathematics education. Like all discourses in education, they are social constructs and have been subjected t…
View article: Towards a Critical Global Citizenship?: A Comparative Analysis of GC Education Discourses in Scotland and Alberta
Towards a Critical Global Citizenship?: A Comparative Analysis of GC Education Discourses in Scotland and Alberta Open
Global citizenship has increasingly become common parlance in education curriculainternationally.Yet, it can be argued that in many instances, especially in official curriculum documents, Global Citizenship Education (GCE) tends to ignore …
View article: Ubuntu, Indigeneity, and an Ethic for Decolonizing Global Citizenship
Ubuntu, Indigeneity, and an Ethic for Decolonizing Global Citizenship Open
Global citizenship and associated discourses on globalization often comport with a moral liberal response to new widespread place-based formations of race, class, gender, migratory and ethnic inequality. This often-imported liberalism resi…