Mathematics Education In A Neocolonial Country The Case Of Papua New Guinea

Author : Patricia Paraide,Kay Owens,Charly Muke,Philip Clarkson,Christopher Owens
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030909949

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Mathematics Education in a Neocolonial Country: The Case of Papua New Guinea by Patricia Paraide,Kay Owens,Charly Muke,Philip Clarkson,Christopher Owens Pdf

Most education research is undertaken in western developed countries. While some research from developing countries does make it into research journals from time to time, but these articles only emphasize the rarity of research in developing countries. The proposed book is unique in that it will cover education in Papua New Guinea over the millennia. Papua New Guinea’s multicultural society with relatively recent contact with Europe and the Middle East provides a cameo of the development of education in a country with both a colonial history and a coup-less transition to independence. Discussion will focus on specific areas of mathematics education that have been impacted by policies, research, circumstances and other influences, with particular emphasis on pressures on education in the last one and half centuries. This volume will be one of the few records of this kind in the education research literature as an in-depth record and critique of how school mathematics has been grown in Papua New Guinea from the late 1800s, and should be a useful addition to graduate programs mathematics education courses, history of mathematics, as well as the interdisciplinary fields of cross cultural studies, scholarship focusing on globalization and post / decolonialism, linguistics, educational administration and policy, technology education, teacher education, and gender studies.

Author : Eric Vandendriessche,Rik Pinxten
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-02-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030974824

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Indigenous Knowledge and Ethnomathematics by Eric Vandendriessche,Rik Pinxten Pdf

The book presents a series of ethnographic studies, which illustrate issues of wider importance, such as the role of cultural traditions, concepts and learning procedures in the development of formal (or mathematical) thinking outside of the western tradition. It focuses on research at the crossroads of anthropology and ethnomathematics to document indigenous mathematical knowledge and its inclusion in specific cultural patterns. More generally, the book demonstrates the heuristic value of crossing ethnographical, anthropological and ethnomathematical approaches to highlight and analyze—or "formalize" with a pedagogical outlook—indigenous mathematical knowledge. The book is divided into three parts. The first part extensively analyzes theoretical claims using particular ethnographic data, while revealing the structural mathematical features of different ludic, graphic, or technical/procedural practices in their links to other cultural phenomena. In the second part, new empirical studies that add data and perspectives from the body of studies on indigenous knowledge systems to the ongoing discussions in mathematics education in and for diverse cultural traditions are presented. This part considers, on the one hand, the Brazilian work in this field; on the other hand, it brings ethnographic innovation from other parts of the world. The third part comprises a broad philosophical discussion of the impact of intuitive or "ontological" premises on mathematical thinking and education in the light of recent developments within so-called indigenously inspired thinking. Finally, the editors’ conclusions aim to invite the broad and diversified field of scholars in this domain of research to seek alternative approaches for understanding mathematical reasoning and the adjacent adequate educational goals and means. This book is of interest to scholars and students in anthropology, ethnomathematics, history and philosophy of science, mathematics, and mathematics education, as well as other individuals interested in these topics.

Author : Yüksel Dede
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789819994540

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VALUES AND VALUING IN MATHEMATICS EDUCATION by Yüksel Dede Pdf

Author : G. Ranganathan,George A. Papakostas,Álvaro Rocha
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 1128 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-03
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789819951666

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Inventive Communication and Computational Technologies by G. Ranganathan,George A. Papakostas,Álvaro Rocha Pdf

This book gathers selected papers presented at the 7th International Conference on Inventive Communication and Computational Technologies conference (ICICCT 2023), held on May 22–23, 2023, at Gnanamani College of Technology, Tamil Nadu, India. The book covers the topics such as Internet of things, social networks, mobile communications, big data analytics, bio-inspired computing and cloud computing. The book is exclusively intended for academics and practitioners working to resolve practical issues in this area.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789087909291

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The World of Science Education by Anonim Pdf

The focus of this Handbook is on Australasia (a region loosely recognized as that which includes Australia and New Zealand plus nearby Pacific nations such as Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Fiji, Tonga, Vanuatu, and the Samoan islands) science education and the scholarship that most closely supports this program.

Author : Anthony R. Welch,Peter Freebody
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2005-08-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135386566

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Knowledge, Culture And Power by Anthony R. Welch,Peter Freebody Pdf

First published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789463002295

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Teaching and Learning Mathematics in Multilingual Classrooms by Anonim Pdf

This edited collection draws on recent, emerging insights and understandings about the approaches to improving policy and practice in mathematics education and mathematics teacher education in multilingual settings. It presents, and discusses critically, examples of work from a range of contexts and uses these examples to draw out key issues for research in education in language diverse settings including teaching, learning, curriculum and fit these with appropriate policy and equity approaches.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 758 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Developing countries
ISBN : UCSC:32106005374456

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The Journal of Developing Areas by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mark Bray,Peter D. Smith
Publisher : Melbourne, Australia : Longman Cheshire
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015012172261

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Education and Social Stratification in Papua, New Guinea by Mark Bray,Peter D. Smith Pdf

Author : Kay Owens
Publisher : Springer
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319024639

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Visuospatial Reasoning by Kay Owens Pdf

This book develops the theoretical perspective on visuospatial reasoning in ecocultural contexts, granting insights on how the language, gestures, and representations of different cultures reflect visuospatial reasoning in context. For a number of years, two themes in the field of mathematics education have run parallel with each other with only a passing acquaintance. These two areas are the psychological perspective on visuospatial reasoning and ecocultural perspectives on mathematics education. This volume examines both areas of research and explores the intersection of these powerful ideas. In addition, there has been a growing interest in sociocultural aspects of education and in particular that of Indigenous education in the field of mathematics education. There has not, however, been a sound analysis of how environmental and cultural contexts impact visuospatial reasoning, although it was noted as far back as the 1980s when Alan Bishop developed his duality of visual processing and interpreting visual information. This book provides this analysis and in so doing not only articulates new and worthwhile lines of research, but also uncovers and makes real a variety of useful professional approaches in teaching school mathematics. With a renewed interest in visuospatial reasoning in the mathematics education community, this volume is extremely timely and adds significantly to current literature on the topic.

Author : Gerard Guthrie
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789400718517

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The Progressive Education Fallacy in Developing Countries by Gerard Guthrie Pdf

This book provides a provocative but carefully argued addition to the theory and practice of education in developing countries. The book provides an ethical and empirical justification for support of formalistic teaching in primary and secondary schools in developing countries. It also refutes the application of progressive education principles to curriculum and pre- and in-service teacher education in such contexts. The central focus of this book is the formalistic teaching prevalent in the classrooms of many developing countries. Formalistic (‘teacher-centred’, ‘traditional’, ‘didactic’, ‘pedagogic’) teaching is appropriate in the many countries with revelatory epistemologies, unpopular and old-fashioned though these methods may seem in some western, especially Anglophone, ones. Formalism has been the object of many failed progressive curriculum and teacher education reforms in developing countries for some 50 years.

Author : Ole Ravn,Ole Skovsmose
Publisher : Springer
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030013370

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Connecting Humans to Equations by Ole Ravn,Ole Skovsmose Pdf

Connecting Humans to Equations: A Reinterpretation of the Philosophy of Mathematics presents some of the most important positions in the philosophy of mathematics, while adding new dimensions to this philosophy. Mathematics is an integral part of human and social life, meaning that a philosophy of mathematics must include several dimensions. This book describes these dimensions by the following four questions that structure the content of the book: Where is mathematics? How certain is mathematics? How social is mathematics? How good is mathematics? These four questions refer to the ontological, epistemological, social, and ethical dimension of a philosophy of mathematics. While the ontological and epistemological dimensions have been explored in all classic studies in the philosophy of mathematics, the exploration of the book is unique in its social and ethical dimensions. It argues that the foundation of mathematics is deeply connected to human and social actions and that mathematics includes not just descriptive but also performative features. This human-centered and accessible interpretation of mathematics is relevant for students in mathematics, mathematics education, and any technical discipline and for anybody working with mathematics.

Author : Dirk De Bock,Geert Vanpaemel
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030205997

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Rods, Sets and Arrows by Dirk De Bock,Geert Vanpaemel Pdf

For anyone interested in the history and effects of the introduction of so-called “Modern Mathematics” (or “Mathématique Moderne,” or “New Mathematics,” etc.) this book, by Dirk De Bock and Geert Vanpaemel, is essential reading. The two authors are experienced and highly qualified Belgian scholars and the book looks carefully at events relating to school mathematics for the period from the end of World War II to 2010. Initially the book focuses on events which helped to define the modern mathematics revolution in Belgium before and during the 1960s. The book does much more than that, however, for it traces the influence of these events on national and international debates during the early phases of the reform. By providing readers with translations into English of relevant sections of key Continental documents outlining the major ideas of leading Continental scholars who contributed to the “Mathématique Moderne” movement, this book makes available to a wide readership, the theoretical, social, and political backdrops of Continental new mathematics reforms. In particular, the book focuses on the contributions made by Belgians such as Paul Libois, Willy Servais, Frédérique Lenger, and Georges Papy. The influence of modern mathematics fell away rapidly in the 1970s, however, and the authors trace the rise and fall, from that time into the 21st century, of a number of other approaches to school mathematics—in Belgium, in other Western European nations, and in North America. In summary, this is an outstanding, landmark publication displaying the fruits of deep scholarship and careful research based on extensive analyses of primary sources.

Author : Birgit Brock-Utne
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 591 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2002-06-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135578282

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Whose Education For All? by Birgit Brock-Utne Pdf

Since 1990, when the phrase "education for all" was first coined at the World Bank conference in Jomtien, Thailand, a battle has raged over its meaning and its impact on education in Africa. In this thought-provoking new volume, Dr. Brock-Utne argues that "education for all" really means "Western primary schooling for some, and none for others." Her incisive analysis demonstrates how this construct robs Africans of their indigenous knowledge and language, starves higher education in Africa, and thereby perpetuates Western dominion. In Dr. Brock-Utne's words, "A quadrangle building has been erected in a village of round huts."

Author : Nelly P. Stromquist,Michael L. Basile
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2003-08-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135579616

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Politics of Educational Innovations in Developing Countries by Nelly P. Stromquist,Michael L. Basile Pdf

In the educational arena, new ideas often compete as solutions to recurrent problems, making the concept of "innovations" a widespread discursive term. While expectations are substantial for each innovation, implementation of ideas has shown them to be more modest in practice. This book examines innovations in several developing countries, presenting case studies of technological, curricular, and organizational innovations selected for their magnitude in financial investment, scope, and duration. The case studies explore the social and political contexts that shaped the features of these innovations and what they accomplished over time in terms of teacher cost reduction, status mobility, access to education, and national unity. The experience of countries such as Brazil, Lesotho, the Philippines, and Namibia, and the influence of international agencies such as the World Bank are described and analyzed against theories of social and organizational change. The case studies themselves also serve as subjects for reflection on the prevailing positivist approaches to research and knowledge. The Politics of Educational Innovations should be of considerable interest to students of educational change, wither in the academic world or in the fields of government and international cooperation.