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The concept of culture in Critical Mathematics Education

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A well-known critique in the research literature of critical mathematics education suggests that framing educational questions in cultural terms can encourage ethnic-cultural essentialism, obscure conflicts within cultures and promote an ethnographic or anthropological stance towards learners.
Nevertheless, we believe that some of the obstacles to learning mathematics are cultural. ‘Stereotype threat’, for example, has a basis in culture. Consequently, the aims of critical mathematics education cannot be seriously pursued without including a cultural approach in educational research.
We argue that an adequate conception of culture is available and should include normative/descriptive and material/ideal dyads as dialectical moments.
Book: The Philosophy of Mathematics Education Today
Pages: 163-176
Number of pages: 14
ISBN:978-3-319-77759-7
Publication year:2018
Keywords:Mathematics Education, Cultural context
  • ORCID: /0000-0002-5405-4229/work/74306485
  • VABB Id: c:vabb:465531