Philosophy of Mathematics Education Journal No. 21 (September 2007)

Philosophy of Mathematics Education Journal ISSN 1465-2978 (Online)

Editor: Paul Ernest

SPECIAL ISSUE ON SOCIAL JUSTICE, PART 2

Contents

EDITORIAL

Paul Ernest: Why Social Justice? (doc, 60kb)

THEORIES AND REFLECTIONS

Paul Dowling  Organising the Social (doc, 124kb)

Paola Valero  What has Power got to do with Mathematics Education? (doc, 94kb)

Bharath Sriraman and Olof Steinthorsdottir  Social Justice and Mathematics Education: Issues,  Dilemmas, Excellence and Equity (doc, 114kb)

GLOBALIZATION AND SOCIAL JUSTICE

Bill Atweh  What is this thing called Social Justice and what does it have to do with Us in the Context of Globalisation? (doc, 89kb)

Bal Chandra Luitel & Peter Charles Taylor  Defrosting and Re-Frosting the Ideology of Pure Mathematics: An Infusion of Eastern-Western Perspectives on Conceptualising a Socially Just Mathematics Education (doc, 166kb)

Paul Ernest  Mathematics Education Ideologies and Globalization  (doc, 217kb)

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE

Jeff Evans  On Methodologies of Research into Gender and Other Equity Questions (doc, 109kb)

Simon Goodchild  Classroom Research: Impact and Long Term Effect versus Justice, Liberation and Empowerment? (doc, 89kb)

Dalene M. Swanson  Cultural Beads and Mathematical A.I.D.S.: A Critical Narrative of Disadvantage, Social Context and School Mathematics in Post-Apartheid South Africa, with Reflections and Implications for Glocal Contexts  (doc, 261kb)

INCLUSION

Hilary Povey & Corinne Angier  Creating Opportunities for Authoritative Knowing: Some Undergraduates' Experiences of Mathematics Assessment (doc, 70kb)

Irene Rönnberg & Lennart Rönnberg  On Guiding Second Language Learners in their Numeracy Development: The Importance of Beliefs and Attitudes (doc, 72kb)

SOCIAL DISADVANTAGE

Gelsa Knijnik  Mathematics Education and the Brazilian Landless Movement: Three Different Mathematics in the Context of the Struggle for Social Justice (doc, 108kb)

Gina Donaldson  The Impact of Research on Educational Policy: An Examination of Research into Standardised Assessment Tasks (doc, 62kb)

Katalin Munkacsy  Social Skills and Mathematics Learning (doc, 166kb)

GENDER

Barbro Grevholm  Critical Networking for Women and Mathematics: An Intervention Project in Sweden (doc, 155kb)

Heather Mendick  Only Connect: Troubling Oppositions in Gender and Mathematics (doc, 190kb)

Anna-Maija Partanen  Styles of Linguistic Peer Interaction of Girls and Boys in Four Small Groups Investigating Mathematics (doc, 98kb)

AIMS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE

Andrew Noyes  Mathematics Counts… for what? Rethinking the Mathematics Curriculum in England (doc, 150kb)

Kurt Stemhagen  Toward a Socially Just Mathematics Education: The Importance of Context, the Dangers of Expertise, and the Potential of “Outsight” (doc, 74kb)

Brian Greer  A Sense of Proportion for Social Justice (doc, 64kb)

This is the second part of a Special Issue on Social Justice. Part one was The Philosophy of Mathematics Education Journal no. 20, published in June 2007.

For details of the Aims of the Journal and Editorial policy see previous issues up to 19.  Graduate students are warmly invited to submit coursework assignments and theses for inclusion in this journal, to make available otherwise inaccessible resources for the benefit of the research community in mathematics education and/or the philosophy of mathematics.    

Copyright Notice.  All materials published herein remain copyright of the named author(s), or of the editor if unattributed. Permission is given to freely copy the journal contents on a not-for-profit basis, provided full credit is given to the author and the journal.

Acknowledgements. The journal is made possible by the generous support of University of Exeter and special thanks go to Rich Osborne <R.M.Osborne(at)exeter.ac.uk> for his technical help.

Editor:  Professor Paul Ernest, University of Exeter, School of Education and Lifelong Learning, Exeter EX1 2LU, U.K.  P.Ernest(at)ex.ac.uk,   Web: http://www.people.ex.ac.uk/PErnest/  
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