Landscapes of Investigation : Contributions to Critical Mathematics Education

"Creating landscapes of investigation is a primary concern of critical mathematics education. It enables us to organise educational processes so that students and teachers are able to get involved in explorations guided by dialogical interactions. It attempts to address explicit or implicit forms of social injustice by means of mathematics, and also to promote a critical conception of mathematics, challenging the assumption that the subject represents objectivity and neutrality. Landscapes of Investigation provides many illustrations of how this can be done in primary, secondary, and university education. It also illustrates how exploring landscapes of investigation can contribute to mathematics teacher education programmes. This edited volume is the result of a collaboration established through the Colloquium in Research in Critical Mathematics Education, which took place in 2016, 2018, and 2019 in Brazil. Its twenty-eight contributors are young researchers from Brazil, Chile, Colombia, India, Mexico and the USA, who are dedicated to the further development of critical mathematics education. Organised in eighteen chapters, the volume presents examples of engaging students from a diversity of social and economic backgrounds, age ranges, and abilities across different countries. The chapters present original findings on the social aspects of all levels of mathematics education. Landscapes of Investigation is of particular relevance to those with an interest in the potential of mathematics education to challenge social injustices."--Publisher's website Acknowledgements Preface 1. Entering Landscapes of Investigation 2. Let’s Go Shopping 3. Media and Racism 4. Bringing the Debate over Marijuana Legalisation into the Mathematics Classroom 5. Mathematics Embedded in Community-Based Practices: Landscape of Investigation for Examining Social (In)Justice? 6. Aspects of Democracy in Different Contexts of Mathematics Classes 7. Collaborative Learning within Critical Mathematics Education 8. Global Citizenship 9. About Unfinishedness, Dreams and Landscapes of Investigation 10. A Dialogue in Eternity: Children, Mathematics, and Landscapes of Investigation 11. Inclusive Landscapes of Investigation 12. Meetings amongst Deaf and Hearing Students in the Mathematics Classroom 13. Inclusion and Landscape of Investigation: A Case of Elementary Education 14. Landscapes of Investigation with Seniors 15. The Investigative Approach to Talking about Inclusion in Mathematics Teacher Education 16. Opening an Exercise: Prospective Mathematics Teachers Entering into Landscapes of Investigation 17. The Impact of Income Tax on the Teaching Profession: A Debate Involving Social Justice 18. Critical Mathematics Education in Action: To Be or Not to Be Contributor Biographies List of Figures List of Tables Index