Ethnomathematics
Subtitle: Challenging Eurocentrism in Mathematics Education (S U N Y Series, Reform in Mathematics Education)
Contributors: Arthur B. Powell (Editor); Marilyn Frankenstein (Editor)
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: May 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 440
ISBN-13: 9780791433515
Subjects: Mathematics; Teaching Methods & Materials - Mathematics; Ethnic Sociology; Mathematics (General); Education / Teaching; Study and teaching; Science/Mathematics; Study & Teaching; Anthropology - Cultural; Ethnomathematics; Eurocentrism
Description: This collection brings together classic, previously-published articles and new research to present the emerging field of ethnomathematics from a critical perspective, challenging particular ways in which Eurocentrism permeates mathematics education. The contributors identify several of the field's broad themes - reconsidering what counts as mathematical knowledge, considering interactions between culture and mathematical knowledge, and uncovering hidden and distorted histories of mathematical knowledge.

The book offers a diversity of ethnomathematics perspectives that develop both theoretical and practical issues from various disciplines including mathematics, mathematics education, history, anthropology, cognitive psychology, feminist studies, and African studies written by authors from Brazil, England, Australia, Mozambique, Palestine, Belgium, and the United States.