TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jurdak,Murad
AU  - Vithal,Renuka
AU  - de Freitas,Elizabeth
AU  - Gates,Peter
AU  - Kollosche,David
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Social and Political Dimensions of Mathematics Education: Current Thinking 
T2  - ICME-13 Topical Surveys,
SN  - 9783319296555
U1  - 370 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Cham
PB  - Springer International Publishing, Imprint: Springer
KW  - Mathematics
KW  - Mathematics Education
KW  - Sociology of Education
KW  - Educational Policy and Politics
N1  - Open Access
N2  - This book examines the current thinking on five critical social and political areas in mathematics education. It focuses on material conditions in teaching and learning, and details features of social life and their influence on mathematics teaching, learning and achievement. Following an introduction, the first section addresses equitable access and participation in quality mathematics education. It explores this issue in different contexts and from different ideological perspectives. The second section traces the emergence and development of the notion of activism in mathematics education in theory, in the literature, in research and in practice. The third section then moves on to explore current research on the political forces at work in identity, subjectivity and (dis)ability within mathematics education, showing how emphasis on language and discourse provides information for this research, and how new directions are being pursued to address the diverse material conditions that shape learning experiences in mathematics education. Economic factors behind mathematics achievement form the topic of section four, which examines the political dimensions of mathematics education through the influence of national and global economic structures. The final section addresses distribution of power and cultural regimes of truth, based on the premise that although often deemed apolitical, mathematics and mathematics education are highly political institutions in our society. The book concludes with a summary and recommendations for the future
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29655-5
ER  -