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Mathematics and Statistics Education Challenged by Social Justice

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This presentation aims to clarify the connection between social justice and mathematics and statistics education.
In a first part of the presentation we will present a theoretical frame by which we argue for a solid entanglement of social justice and mathematics and statistics education. Therefore we will go back to the proclamation of human rights and the UNESCO declaration of the right of mathematical literacy. Furthermore we will present the results of two research domains namely Critical mathematics Education and Ethnomathematics that take this challenge as its central research topic.
In a second part of the presentation we will go into the practical implication of this theoretical frame in mathematics and statistics education. In a first case we consider mathematics and statistics education in a Flanders secondary school context. In a second case we investigate into the results of our fieldwork with adult immigrants in a Lisbon suburban context. With the first case we will show how the connection between social justice and mathematics and statistics education comes to an expression in a quasi traditional math class with high level students. The second case shows how the same connection is expressed in a context outside school with adult learners . The former case presents a traditional inside school situation, the latter is closer to the so called streetmathematics.
By presenting this theoretical frame and the practical case, we aim to bring the concept and the challenge of social justice closer to mathematics and statistics educators and researchers.
Boek: Proceedings of the 5th Annual International Conference on Mathematics and Statistics, Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER), 13-16 June 2011, Athens, Greece.
Jaar van publicatie:2011
Trefwoorden:Statistics, Social Justice, Mathematics education, Statistical Literacy, Mathematical Literacy
  • ORCID: /0000-0002-5405-4229/work/74306498