Opening the cage : critique and politics of mathematics education / edited by Ole Skovsmose, Brian Greer.

Part 1. Introduction: Seeing The Cage? The Emergence of Critical Mathematics Education / Ole Skovsmose, Ole Skovsmose and Brian Greer -- Part I. Mathematics Education is Politics -- Mathematics As A Weapon in The Struggle / Eric Rico Gutstein -- A Critical Approach to Equity / Alexandre Pais -- The Role of Mathematics in The Destruction of Communities, and What We Can Do To Reverse This Process, Including Using Mathematics / Munir Jamil Fasheh -- The Usa Mathematics Advisory Panel: A Case study / Brian Greer -- Part II. Borderland Positions -- Mathematics Teaching and Learning of Immigrant Students: An Overview of The Research Field Across Multiple Settings / Marta Civil -- Learning of Mathematics Among Pakistani Immigrant Children in Barcelona: A Sociocultural Perspective / Sikunder Ali Baber -- Mathematics Education Across Two Language Contexts: A Political Perspective / Mamokgethi Setati and Núria Planas -- Genealogy of Mathematics Education in Two Brazilian Rural Forms of Life / Gelsa Knijnik and Fernanda Wanderer -- On Becoming and Being A Critical Black Scholar in Mathematics Education: The Politics of Race and Identity / Danny Bernard Martin and Maisie Gholson -- Totakahini: The Tale of The Parrot / Swapna Mukhopadhyay -- Part III. Mathematics and Power -- The Hegemony of Mathematics / Brian Greer and Swapna Mukhopadhyay -- Bringing Critical Mathematics to Work: But Can Numbers Mobilise? / Keiko Yasukawa and Tony Brown -- Shaping and Being Shaped By Mathematics: Examining A Technology of Rationality / Keiko Yasukawa, Ole Skovsmose, Ole Skovsmose and Ole Ravn -- Part IV. Searching For Possibilities -- Potentials, Pitfalls, and Discriminations: Curriculum Conceptions Revisited / Eva Jablonka and Uwe Gellert -- A Philosophical Perspective on Contextualisations in Mathematics Education / Annica Andersson and Ole Ravn -- Mathematics Education and Democratic Participation Between The Critical and The Ethical: A Socially Response-Able Approach / Bill Atweh -- Towards A Critical Mathematics Education Research Programme? / Ole Skovsmose and Ole Skovsmose -- Opening The Cage? Critical Agency in The Face of Uncertainty / Ole Skovsmose, Ole Skovsmose and Brian Greer.

Includes bibliographical references.

The picture on the front of this book is an illustration for Totakahini: The tale of the parrot, by Rabindranath Tagore, in which he satirized education as a magnificent golden cage. Opening the cage addresses mathematics education as a complex socio-political phenomenon, exploring the vast terrain that spans critique and politics. Opening the cage includes contributions from educators writing critically about mathematics education in diverse contexts. They demonstrate that mathematics education is politics, they investigate borderland positions, they address the nexus of mathematics, education, and power, and they explore educational possibilities. Mathematics education is not a free enterprise. It is carried on behind bars created by economic, political, and social demands. This cage might not be as magnificent as that in Tagore's fable. But it is strong. Opening the cage is a critical and political challenge, and we may be surprised to see what emerges.

English.

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