Mathematics Education: For Whom?

• Author(s): Mesquita, Mônica
• Date: 2009
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10451/3967
• Origin: Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa
• Subject(s): Critical Mathematics; Sociology of Mathematics; Matemática crítica; Sociologia da matemática
• Document Type: Part of book or chapter of book
• Language: English

Description

To rethink about our role as researchers of the mathematics education pro- cess could be a way to think about the relation between for what and why mathematics education exists. Some thoughts, that grew from my inner dia- logues as a researcher, teacher, student, and mother that I am, were devel- oped within practices inside multiple systems in which I was engaged, bring- ing some questions that became a paper from the necessity for sharing them in the Discussion Group 3 of the ICME environment