Philosophy of Mathematics Education Journal
No. 27 (April 2013)
Philosophy of Mathematics Education Journal ISSN 1465-2978 (Online)
Editor: Paul Ernest
Paul Ernest and Allan Tarp Postmodern Mathematics Education: Script For Animated Movie Discussion
Bill Atweh Is the Good a Desire or an Obligation? The Possibility of Ethics for Mathematics Education
Bal Chandra Luitel and Peter Charles Taylor Fractals of ‘Old’ and ‘New’ Logics: A Post/modern Proposal for Transformative Mathematics Pedagogy
Mônica Mesquita and Sal Restivo All Human Beings as Mathematical Workers: Sociology of Mathematics as a Voice in Support of the Ethnomathematics Posture and Against Essentialism
Paul Ernest What is ‘First Philosophy’ in Mathematics Education?
Ilhan M. Izmirli Wittgenstein as a Social Constructivist
Mdutshekelwa Ndlovu Revisiting the Efficacy of Constructivism in Mathematics Education
Matthew. B. Etherington The Perceptions of Mathematics and the Mature Age Second-Career Teacher
Eric D. Smith Gödel’s Incompleteness and Consistency Theorems Elucidated with Principles of Abstraction Levels, Complementarity, and Self-Reference
Zhang Xiao Gui Thinking Analysis to the Process of Mathematical Creativity of Mathematicians
John Cable More Equal than Others: A View from the Grassroots
Egan J Chernoff Probabilistic Relativism: a Multivalentological Investigation of Normatively Incorrect Relative Likelihood Comparisons
Giuseppe Iurato Mathematical Thought in the Light of Matte Blanco’s Work
Fayez Mourad Mina Mathematical Truth and Mathematics Education
Mona Nosrati Sets, Groups and Relations - A comparative study of the aims and purposes of mathematics education in relation to ability grouping in England and Norway
Alison Pease A Computational Model of Lakatos-style Reasoning
For details of the Aims of the Journal and Editorial policy see earlier issues up to no. 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 authors, 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 and that the integrity of papers is preserved.
Acknowledgement The journal is made possible by the generous support of University of Exeter. Especial thanks are due to Mike Jeffries-Harris for technical assistance.
Editor: Professor Paul Ernest, University of Exeter, Graduate School of Education, St Lukes, Exeter EX1 2LU, U.K. P.Ernest @ ex.ac.uk, Web: http://www.people.ex.ac.uk/PErnest/
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