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Ethnomathematics and peasant forms of life : researching with the Brazilian landless workers movement| old_uid | 8376 |
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| title | Ethnomathematics and peasant forms of life : researching with the Brazilian landless workers movement |
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| start_date | 2010/03/17 |
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| schedule | 15h-16h |
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| online | no |
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| summary | The Brazilian Landless Workers Movement – in Portuguese, Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST) – is the largest social movement in Latin America with an estimated 350 thousand peasant families organized in 23 of 27 states. The MST schooling project covers about 2000 schools in camps and settlements (grades 1 to 8), with 200 thousand students. More than 50 thousand adults participate in Adult Literacy and Numeracy Projects and about 10 public universities run specific Teacher Education, Agronomy and Administration courses for MST. The mathematics curriculum which is developed as part of the MST schooling project includes not only the Western traditional school mathematics : it also intends to highlight the native mathematical knowledge of the various Landless peasant forms of life. Using ethnographic techniques in fieldwork developed in different MST contexts, the author collected data about Landless forms of life, which allowed her to identify peasant mathematical language games constituted by specific rules, different from those that mark the language games of the Western School Mathematics in which Brazilian children are usually schooled. In the seminar some of those Landless language games will be presented and the author’s theoretical perspective will be discussed. It considers Ethnomathematics as a theoretical tool-box, which allows analyzing the discourses of academic and school mathematics and their effects of truth ; the cultural difference in mathematics education, considering the centrality of culture and the power relations that institute it ; and the language games that constitute the different mathematics and their family resemblances.
SUGGESTED READING :
Knijnik, G. (2007). Mathematics education and the Brazilian Landless Movement : three different mathematics in the context of the struggle for social justice. Philosophy of Mathematics Education Journal, 21(1), 1-18.
Knijnik, G., Wanderer, F., Oliveira, C.J. (2005). Cultural Diferences, oral mathematics and calculators in a Teacher Training Course of the Brazilian Landless Movement. Zentralblatt für Didaktik der Mathematik 37(2). 101-108 |
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| responsibles | Keller, Vandendriessche |
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