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The Politics of Mathematics Education

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  • © 2002

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Authors:
  1. Stieg Mellin-Olsen

    1. Bergen College of Education, Norway

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Part of the book series: Mathematics Education Library (MELI, volume 4)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction

    • Paul Goodman
    Pages 1-17

  3. Activity Theory

    Pages 18-76

  4. Mathematics as a Language

    Pages 77-112

  5. Learning from Anthropology

    Pages 113-150

  6. Learning from Psychology

    Pages 151-190

  7. Politicising Mathematics Education

    Pages 191-224

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 225-249
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The development of knowledge is never easy. One doesn’t want to go over old ground again, but yet one needs to establish the new in the context of the old. One is also anxious about the novelty of the ideas are they new enough, or are they too ‘way out’ to be acceptable? In some fields perhaps these criteria are less important than in others. In education, I sense that ‘novelty’ is a tricky criterion, varying in value from society to society. In some societies the new ideas have to justify their adoption in the face to the old, tried and tested ideas. (Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t!) In other societies the old ways have to justify their continuation in the face of the new, promising and exciting ideas. (I can’t find a good proverb for this! Perhaps proverbs are all about preserving the past?) In any case, some people will argue, there is nothing new to be said about education anyway the problems are the same and it is only the context which changes. Mellin Olsen develops the reader’s knowledge through this book in ways that are both novel and challenging. Their novelty is not in question, judging by reactions to them which vary from “they have nothing to do with mathematics education” to “they concern everything that is done in mathematics education”.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Bergen College of Education, Norway

    Stieg Mellin-Olsen

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Politics of Mathematics Education

  • Authors: Stieg Mellin-Olsen

  • Series Title: Mathematics Education Library

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-47236-8

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2002

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-2350-5Published: 31 March 1987

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-8430-9Published: 30 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-306-47236-7Published: 11 April 2006

  • Series ISSN: 0924-4921

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-983X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 250

  • Topics: Mathematics Education, Philosophy of Education, Anthropology

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