Critical Mathematics Education (eBook)

The book Critical Mathematics Education provides Ole Skovsmose's recent contribution to the further development of critical mathematics education. It gives examples of learning environments, which invite students to engage in investigative processes. It discusses how mathematics can be used for identifying cases of social injustice, and it shows how mathematics itself can become investigated critically. Critical Mathematics Education addresses issues with respect to racism, oppression, erosion of democracy, sustainability, formatting power of mathematics, and banality of mathematical expertise. It explores relationships between mathematics, ethics, crises, and critique.

Ole Skovsmose has a special interest in critical mathematics education. He has investigated the notions of landscape of investigation, formatting power of mathematics, mathematics in action, students' foregrounds, and banality of mathematical expertise. He has been professor at the Department of Education, Learning and Philosophy (now Department of Culture and Learning), Aalborg University, Denmark. He is now retired and lives most of his time in Brazil. PhD 1982 from the Royal Danish School of Educational Studies, and Dr. Scient 1995 from Aalborg University.