Ole Skovsmose

Gebundenes Buch

Critical Philosophy of Mathematics

Beschreibung

This book provides a philosophy of mathematics that resonates with critical mathematics education. It draws attention to the social complexities that characterise the period of Modernity including the extreme exploitation of manual workers and their families, brutal forms of colonisations, trading of slaves, and the formation of racist ideologies. It portrays Modernity as a period of contradictions and highlights that mathematics is a part of these contradictions. The text interprets mathematics as being indefinite, seeing that mathematics is a part of the ongoing human constructions. It outlines a performative interpretation of mathematics, portraying mathematics as intrinsically connected to actions. Any kind of action, including mathematics-based actions, calls for ethical considerations and this leads to any mathematical practice, either in research, application, or education, to face ethical challenges. It illustrates with examples how a critical philosophy of mathematics can come to be an integral part of classroom practices.

Autor

Ole Skovsmose has a special interest in critical mathematics education. His research addresses landscape of investigation, dialogue, students' foreground, inclusive mathematics education, pedagogical imagination, mathematics in action, philosophy of mathematics education, and philosophy of mathematics. He is a professor at the Department of Education, Learning and Philosophy (now Department of Culture and Learning), Aalborg University, Denmark as well as a professor at Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp), Brazil. He has recently received the Freudenthal medal of ICMI for his innovative theoretical work.

Produktdetails

• Advances in Mathematics Education
• Verlag: Springer / Springer Nature Switzerland / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-031-71374-3
• 2024
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. September 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 160mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 537g
• ISBN-13: 9783031713743
• ISBN-10: 3031713745
• Artikelnr.: 71320627

Rezensionen

"Ole Skovsmose begins his journey into the critical philosophy of mathematics with the advent of modernity. ... Ole Skovsmose's critical philosophy of mathematics fills a giant hole in contemporary philosophy. It offers a philosophy of applied mathematics, something that traditional philosophers have overlooked or turned away from. ... . It is now urgent and vital that philosophers, mathematicians and indeed all citizens wake up to these challenges, expressed so forcefully and analysed so convincingly in this book." (Paul Ernest, Philosophy of Mathematics Education Journal, Issue 42, December, 2024)