New book: MULTIMATHEMACY: Anthropology and Mathematics Education

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multiMULTIMATHEMACY: Anthropology and Mathematics Education
Authors: Pinxten, Rik

Table of contents
Introduction
Worldview
Education in a Post-industrial World
Mathematics Education and Culture: Learning Theories
Foundational Questions?
Language and Thought
Multimathemacy and Education. General Principles
Learning Formal Thinking in a Culture-Specific Context
Complex Mathematical Activities
Education in a School Context
General Conclusions
Appendix: Human Beings as Learners-in-Context: An “Engine” for the Capability Approach

About this book

This book defends that math education should systematically start out from the diverse out-of-school knowledge of children and develop trajectories from there to the Academic Mathematics   tower of knowledge. Learning theories of the sociocultural school (Vygotsky and on) are used here, and ethnographic knowledge from around the world is shown to offer a rich and varied base for curricula. The book takes a political stand against the exclusively western focus  in OECD analyses and proposals on math education. 

This book aims at agents in education and social actions in every cultural environment. But it is also attractive to mathematicians, anthropologists and other specialists. It offers a broad and scholarly view of knowledge and culture and a very original  transcultural and transdisciplinarian approach to education.

Ubiratan D’Ambrosio, UNICAMP/Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil

http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319262536