Neoliberal Mathematics Education Research in the Service of Big Capital
In this paper, I argue that international Mathematics Education Research (MER) is dictated by the interests and agenda of the imperialist countries, which dehistoricizes the material conditions of imperialized and impoverished nations while deliberately obfuscating the economic reasons underlying th...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2023 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Sociedade Brasileira de Educação Matemática, Brasília (SBEM-DF) |
| Repositorio: | Revista de Educação Matemática (Online) |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs2.www.revistasbemsp.com.br:article/16 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://www.revistasbemsp.com.br/index.php/REMat-SP/article/view/16 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Imperialismo Exclusão Marxismo Neoliberalismo Economia Politica Imperialism Exclusion Marxism Neoliberalism Political Economy |
| Sumario: | In this paper, I argue that international Mathematics Education Research (MER) is dictated by the interests and agenda of the imperialist countries, which dehistoricizes the material conditions of imperialized and impoverished nations while deliberately obfuscating the economic reasons underlying the “failure” of mathematics learning outcomes of their students. Instead, in the guise of improving mathematics teaching/learning, such researches usually blame the very people of these imperialized countries for the ‘low learning outcomes’ of their school students, attributing it to “cultural” and “local” beliefs, mindsets, practices, etc., thereby producing academic justifications for the neoliberal destruction of their public education systems. I begin my argument by drawing from my PhD research study with visually challenged mathematics learners from socio-economically marginalized communities in India. I then follow it up with a brief overview of some mathematics education research works in the context of Sub-Saharan African countries to illustrate my point. |
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