Difference, Inclusion and Mathematics Education in Brazil

Autor: Leo Akio Yokoyama, Fabiane Guimarães Vieira Marcondes, Clélia Maria Ignatius Nogueira, Miriam Godoy Penteado
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Mathematics Education in Brazil ISBN: 9783319934549
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-93455-6_14
Popis: This chapter presents an overview of participation of the working group on Difference, Inclusion and Mathematics Education of the Brazilian Society of Mathematics Education (SBEM) at the sixth International Seminar of Research on Mathematics Education (SIPEM VI). This is the most recently created working group, launched nationally in 2013, with its first meeting taking place at SIPEM VI, where 14 papers were presented. In this chapter, we report upon the four themes around which these papers were organised: (1) communication and language; (2) content and curriculum; (3) teachers, teacher knowledge and teaching practices and (4) questioning the concept of normality. The ideas addressed in each of these themes are presented in this chapter. Discussion of the concerns raised in the research studies suggested that the fourth theme could be seen as issues that cut across all the others, leading to the perspective that everyone is different and, further, that a problematisation of the concept of normality should guide the definition of content, methodology and assessment at all levels of mathematics education.
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