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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Knijnik, Gelsa
• Kalman, Judy
• Street, Brian

Titel

The Brazilian Landless Movement and a Mathematics Education Research Program 1

Ist Teil von

• Literacy and Numeracy in Latin America, 2013, p.141-152

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2013

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This chapter analyzes a Mathematics Education Research Program developed with the Brazilian Landless Movement in the south of this Latin American country in the last 20 years. Even though the research program is focused on the study of different fields of mathematics (one of them being school mathematics) and the analysis of school mathematical discourse, this program can be considered as part of Latin American Literacy Studies. In fact, we are taking as the theoretical framework an ethnomathematics perspective, which is based on a social-cultural approach that understands the learning of mathematics as acquiring and using mathematical languages (in plural, as we will discuss below), more precisely, networks of mathematical language games, in Wittgenstein's terms. This implies considering that each network is composed of socio-cultural practices, which lead us to situate the Mathematics Education Research Program in the field of Literacy Studies.