The Freedom of Knowledge: Asphalt Academics and Asphalt Children

Authors: Mônica Mesquita and Sal Restivo   Henceforth, my dear philosophers, let us be on guard against the dangerous old conceptual fiction that posited a “pure, will-less, painless, timeless knowing subject”; let us guard against the snares of such contradictory concepts as “pure reason,” absolute spirituality,” “knowledge in itself”: these always demand that we should think of…

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Ethnomathematics in non-formal educational settings: The Urban Boundaries Project

Authors: Alexandre Pais and Mônica Mesquita   The push to marry off local and school knowledge has been a growing concern within educational sciences, particularly in mathematics education where a field of studies by the name of ethnomathematics has been producing research around the uses people do of mathematics outside school’s walls. Notwithstanding the good…

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Workshop & Sharing Group Discussion of ICME-12

Authors: Mônica Mesquita e Alexandre Pais Submitted by November 30, 2011   □ Workshop   X Sharing Group Workshop or Sharing Group Name Urban Boundaries Project: Mathematics and the struggle for survival   Organizing Team Position First Name LastName Country / Region Institute E-mail Chair or Presenter Mônica Mesquita Portugal Lisbon University mbmesquita@ie.ul.pt Alexandre Pais Denmark…

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