Mathematics education actualized in the cyberspace
a philosophical essay
pp. 253-270
in: Paul Ernest (ed), The philosophy of mathematics education today, Berlin, Springer, 2018Abstract
In this article it is assumed that the role of the Philosophy of Mathematics Education is to analyze and ponder about reality, or a vision of the world, a conception of knowledge and of the human being, shedding light on the meanings and senses that emerge in the works by Mathematics Education authors. In order to comply with the clarity required in every Philosophical text, more specifically the Philosophy of Mathematics Education, virtual and real ontological aspects are specifically addressed aiming to expose comprehensions about cyberspace, understood as an important aspect of our world reality. In the present essay, the following aspects are covered: The ontological aspects of cyberspace; the epistemological aspects in cyberspace and the anthropological aspects. They are seen as intertwined. They are to be considered an entanglement that unveils the complexity of the everyday reality in which we live in, and in which cyberspace becomes. It is in this entanglement that Mathematics Education actualizes itself and that the Philosophy of Mathematics Education endeavours to analyze, to critique, and to reflect on.