Celebrating diversity, realizing alternatives

Brian Greer

Swapna Mukhopadhyay

Wolff-Michael Roth

pp. 1-8

in: Swapna Mukhopadhyay, Wolff-Michael Roth (eds), Alternative forms of knowing (in) mathematics, Rotterdam, SensePublishers, 2012

Abstract

This book is about the celebration of diversity in all its human forms, specifically in relation to mathematics and mathematics education: culture, ethnicity, gender, forms of life, worldviews, cognition, language, value systems, perceptions of what education is for. All of which are reflections of the unavoidable (yet often denied) reality that mathematics education is politics.