Ethnomathematics and Mathematics Education International Perspectives in Times of Local and Global Change

This edited volume examines ethnomathematics conceptions, pedagogical practices, and research from international perspectives in times of local and global challenges. The book explores connections between mathematical, cultural, political, and social practices toward more inclusive, holistic, creative, transdisciplinary and critical ways of engaging with knowledge and mathematical actions in society. In this edited book, the authors explore how ethnomathematics supports transformation of educational systems toward regaining cultural reclamation and self-confidence, challenges colonial logics for decolonizing and Indigenizing mathematics education, and engages with actions for critical and social justice issues.

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Part I. Ethnomathematics and Schools: Cultural Self-confidence and Reclamation.- Chapter 2. Chinese Cultural Group Students’ Mathematical Problem Posing in Tasks with a Cultural Context and Without a Cultural Context.- Chapter 3. Foreign algorithms from the rich fund of knowledge as a starting point for mathematically productive and emancipating teaching in international classes in Germany.- Chapter 4. Mexican American woman talking about graphs: A focus on their lived experiences.- Chapter 5. Weaving Indigenous mathematics: Bringing Indigenous ways and stories into conversation with ethnomathematics.- Chapter 6. From ethnomathematics reasoning to mathematics research.- Part II. Ethnomathematics, Challenging Colonial Logics, and Indigenizing.- Chapter 7. Internalized mathematics as intuitive as breathing: An ethnomathematics study of traditional architecture in Iran.- Chapter 8. Ethnomathematics as a pedagogical and political tool in an Indigenous school curriculum.- Chapter 9. The formation of critical thinking in mathematics learning through a model of contextualization with the social, political and historical environment in Ecuadorian education.- Chapter 10. Ethnomodelling Research: Glocalizing Educational Systems from Exclusion to Inclusion at Local and Global Levels.- Chapter 11. The Dynamic Components of Janiola’s Ethnolearning Framework.- Chapter 12. Ethnomathematics from a political perspective.

Dr. Cynthia Nicol is a professor in mathematics education in the Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy at the University of British Columbia, Canada. She holds the David Robitaille Professorship in Mathematics and Science Education and is recognized internationally for her research in culturally responsive mathematics education with/in rural and Indigenous communities.

Dr. Gelsa Knijnik is a professor in mathematics education at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. She conducts research in the area of Mathematics Education from an ethnomathematical perspective, which examines culture in its intersections with the social, economic, and political. She has participated in all ICMEs since 1987. At ICME-14, she was the chair of TSG Ethnomathematics. She has published many articles and book chapters with international circulation as well as books in Brazil linked to her academic production.

Dr. Aihui Peng is an associate professor in the Faculty of Education at Southwest University, China. She had been a postdoctoral researcher in Umea University and senior lecturer in Linneaus University, Sweden. Her research interests focus on mathematics curriculum and instruction from cross-cultural perspectives, under which she led international and national research projects. She served as the co-chair of TSG 24 in ICME-12 and a team member of TSG 52 in ICME-14.

Dr. Marcos Cherinda is professionally trained as a Teacher of Mathematics and Physics and holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics Education. He was a Regular Lecturer at ICME-12, served as the ICMI-Mozambique Country Representative (2012–2020) and was the Chair of the Local Organizing Committee of the 5th International Congress on Ethnomathematics (ICEM-5) held in Maputo, on July 7 to 11, 2014. Currently, he is serving the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) at the Maputo, Mozambique office as a senior officer for Science, Technology, Higher Education and TVET.

Dr. Arindam Bose is an Associate Professor in TISS, Mumbai and a Collaborative Prof in UNIFESP, Brazil. His research focus is on Ethnomathematics, math cognition and language diversity. He has published on ethnomathematics of the work practices of low-income communities with rich cultural resources. In ICME-14, he was an active member of the Topic Study Group (TSG) on Ethnomathematics. In ICME-13, he co-edited a volume on TSG work on language communication and math learning which has been published by Springer.