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Title Towards equity in mathematics education : gender, culture, and diversity / Helen Forgasz, Ferdinand Rivera, editors
Published Berlin ; New York : Springer, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 597 pages)
Series Advances in mathematics education, 1869-4918
Advances in mathematics education (Springer (Firm))
Contents pt. 1. Equity and gender / Preface to "Moving Towards a Feminist Epistemology of Mathematics" / Diana B. Erchick -- Moving Towards a Feminist Epistemology of Mathematics / Leone Burton -- Preface to "Equity in Mathematics Education: Unions and Intersections of Feminist and Social Justice Literature" / Laura Jacobsen -- Equity in Mathematics Education: Unions and Intersections of Feminist and Social Justice Literature / Laura Jacobsen Spielman -- Preface to "Adolescent Girls' Construction of Moral Discourses and Appropriation of Primary Identity in a Mathematics Classroom" / Jae Hoon Lim -- Adolescent Girls' Construction of Moral Discourses and Appropriation of Primary Identity in a Mathematics Classroom / Jae Hoon Lim -- Shall We Do Politics or Learn Some Maths Today? Representing and Interrogating Social Inequality / Paul Dowling and Jeremy Burke -- Commentary on the Chapter by Paul Dowling and Jeremy Burke, "Shall We Do Politics or Learn Some Maths Today? Representing and Interrogating Social Inequality" / Mathematics Educators as Political Activists: Dissonance, Resonance, or Critical / Bill Atweh -- Commentary on the Chapter by Dowling and Burke, "Shall We Do Politics or Learn Some Maths Today? Representing and Interrogating Social Inequality" / Joanne Rossi Becker -- Gender Role Stereotypes in the Perception of Mathematics: An Empirical Study with Secondary Students in Germany / Gabriele Kaiser, Maren Hoffstall and Anna B. Orschulik -- Commentary on the Chapter by Gabriele Kaiser, Maren Hoffstall and Anna B. Orschulik, "Gender Role Stereotypes in the Perception of Mathematics-Results of an Empirical Study with Secondary Students in Germany" / Sarah Theule Lubienski -- Commentary on the Chapter by Gabriele Kaiser, Maren Hoffstall, and Anna B. Orschulik, "Gender Role Stereotypes in the Perception of Mathematics: Results of an Empirical Study with Secondary Students in Germany" / Colleen Vale -- Students' Attitudes, Engagement and Confidence in Mathematics and Statistics Learning: ICT, Gender, and Equity Dimensions / Anastasios N. Barkatsas -- Commentary on the Chapter by Anastasios Barkatsas, "Students' Attitudes, Engagement and Confidence in Mathematics and Statistics Learning: ICT, Gender, and Equity Dimensions" / Testing the Hypothesis of a Virtuous Cycle / Kenneth Ruthven -- Commentary on the Chapter by Anastasios Barkatsas, "Students' Attitudes, Engagement and Confidence in Mathematics and Statistics Learning: ICT, Gender, and Equity Dimensions" / Hazel Tan -- Introduction / Ferdinand Rivera and Helen Forgasz
pt. 2. Equity and Culture / Preface to "Israeli Jewish and Arab Students' Gendering of Mathematics" / David Mittelberg and Helen Forgasz -- Israeli Jewish and Arab Students' Gendering of Mathematics / Helen J. Forgasz and David Mittelberg -- Preface to "Ethnomathematics and Philosophy" / Bill Barton -- Ethnomathematics and Philosophy / Bill Barton -- Preface to "Cultural Differences, Oral Mathematics and Calculators in a Teacher Training Course of the Brazilian Landless Movement" / A New Theoretical Lens on Cultural Differences, Oral Mathematics, and Calculators in a Teacher Training Course of the Brazilian Landless Movement / Gelsa Knijnik and Fernanda Wanderer -- Cultural Differences, Oral Mathematics, and Calculators in a Teacher Training Course of the Brazilian Landless Movement / Gelsa Knijnik, Fernanda Wanderer and Claudio José de Oliveira -- Preface to "Immigrant Parents' Perspectives on Their Children's Mathematics Education" / Marta Civil, Núria Planas and Beatriz Quintos -- Immigrant Parents' Perspectives on Their Children's Mathematics Education / Marta Civil, Núria Planas and Beatriz Quintos -- Mathematics Education for Adults: Can It Reduce Inequality in Society? / Wolfgang Schlöglmann -- Commentary on the Chapter by Wolfgang Schlöglmann, "Mathematics Education for Adults: Can It Reduce Inequality in Society?" / Tine Wedege -- Commentary on the Chapter by Wolfgang Schlöglmann, "Mathematics Education for Adults: Can It Reduce Inequality in Society?" / Jaguthsing Dindyal -- Heteroglossia in Multilingual Mathematics Classrooms / Richard Barwell -- Commentary on the Chapter by Richard Barwell, "Heteroglossia in Multilingual Mathematics Classrooms" / Heteroglossia and "Orchestration" in Multilingual Mathematics Classrooms / Núria Planas -- Commentary on the Chapter by Richard Barwell, "Heteroglossia in Multilingual Mathematics Classrooms" / Bakhtin, Alterity, and Ideology / Luis Radford
pt. 3. Equity and Curriculum Diversity / Preface to "Doubtful Rationality" / Ole Skovsmose -- Doubtful Rationality / Ole Skovsmose -- Preface to "A Socio-Political Look at Equity in the School Organization of Mathematics Education" / Paola Valero -- A Socio-Political Look at Equity in the School Organization of Mathematics Education / Paola Valero -- Looking for Gold: Catering for Mathematically Gifted Students Within and Beyond ZDM / Gilah C. Leder -- Commentary on the Chapter by Gilah Leder, "Looking for Gold: Catering for Mathematically Gifted Students Within and Beyond ZDM" / Some Gold Is Found-Much More Is in the Mine / Boris Koichu -- Commentary on the Chapter by Gilah Leder, "Looking for Gold: Catering for Mathematically Gifted Students Within and Beyond ZDM" / Rosemary Callingham -- From the Known to the Unknown: Pattern, Mathematics and Learning in Papua New Guinea / Graeme Were -- Commentary on the Chapter by Graeme Were, "From the Known to the Unknown: Pattern, Mathematics and Learning in Papua New Guinea" / From the Known to the Unknown: What It Means to 'Know' Mathematics / Alan J. Bishop -- Commentary on the Chapter by Graeme Were, "From the Known to the Unknown: Pattern, Mathematics and Learning in Papua New Guinea" / Ethnomathematics, Patterns, and Mathematical Minds / Steven K. Khan
pt. 4. Equity and biology / Gender Differences in Mathematics and Science Achievement Across the Distribution: What International Variation Can Tell Us About the Role of Biology and Society / Andrew M. Penner and Todd CadwalladerOlsker -- Commentary on the Chapter by Penner and CadwalladerOlsker, "Gender Differences in Mathematics and Science Achievement Across the Distribution: What International Variation Can Tell Us About the Role of Biology and Society" / James S. Dietz -- Commentary on the Chapter by Penner and CadwalladerOlsker, "Gender Differences in Mathematics and Science Achievement Across the Distribution: What International Variation Can Tell Us About the Role of Biology and Society" / Robert (Bob) Klein -- Research-Based Mathematics Instruction for Students with Learning Disabilities / Marjorie Montague and Asha K. Jitendra -- Commentary on the Chapter by Marjorie Montague and Asha Jitendra, "Research-Based Mathematics Instruction for Students with Learning Disabilities" / How do Cognitive Strategy Limitations Relate to Other Aspects of Mathematical Difficulties? / Ann Dowker -- Commentary on the Chapter by Marjorie Montague and Asha Jitendra, "Research-Based Mathematics Instruction for Students with Learning Disabilities" / Delinda van Garderen -- Neural Correlates of Gender, Culture, and Race and Implications to Embodied Thinking in Mathematics / Ferdinand Rivera -- Commentary on the Chapter by Ferdinand Rivera, "Neural Correlates of Gender, Culture, and Race and Implications to Embodied Thinking in Mathematics" / Connecting the Neural Correlates of Gender, Culture and Race with Mathematics Education / Bert De Smedt and Lieven Verschaffel -- Commentary on the Chapter by Ferdinand Rivera, "Neural Correlates of Gender, Culture, and Race and Implications to Embodied Thinking in Mathematics" / Stephen R. Campbell
Summary The pursuit of equity in mathematics education is an important concern in the history of the present. Since there is no doubt about the significant role of mathematics in almost every aspect of life, it means that all individuals regardless of sex, in any age range, and in whatever context need to be provided with an opportunity to become mathematically able. The publication of his Springer volume on equity in mathematics education is situated at a time when there is strong and sustained research evidence indicating the persistence of an equity gap in mathematics, which has now enabled the mathematics education community to engage in a discourse of access for all. The volume gathers together twenty major chapters that tackle a variety of issues associated with equity in mathematics education along the dimensions of gender, culture, curriculum diversity, and matters of a biological nature. The research studies that are reported and discussed in the volume have been drawn from an international group of distinguished scholars whose impressive, forward-looking, and thought- provoking perspectives on relevant issues incite, broaden, and expand complicated conversations on how we might effectively achieve equity in mathematics education at the local, institutional, and systemic levels. Further, the up-to-dateresearch knowledge in the field that is reflected in this volume provides conceptual and practical outlines for mechanisms of change, including models, examples, and usable theories that can inform the development of powerful equitable practices and the mobilization of meaningful equity interventions in different contexts of mathematics education
Analysis Education
Mathematics
Gender Studies
Mathematics Education
Cultural Studies
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Subject Mathematics -- Study and teaching.
Mathematics -- Study and teaching -- Social aspects
MATHEMATICS -- Study & Teaching.
Education.
Sciences sociales.
Sciences humaines.
Mathematics -- Study and teaching
Mathematics -- Study and teaching -- Social aspects
Form Electronic book
Author Forgasz, Helen.
Rivera, Ferdinand D.
ISBN 9783642277023
3642277020
3642277012
9783642277016
9783642428357
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