MULTIMATHEMACY: Anthropology and Mathematics Education

Foreword.- Introduction. What ifs.- Worldview: sphere and worldview.-Part I: The general context of education.- 1. Education in a post-industrial world.- 2. Math education and culture: learning theories.- Part II: Epistemological questions on AM and EM.- 3. Foundational issues? Whitehead s Multiperspectivalness.- 4. Language and thought.- Part III: Ethnomathematics and education.- 5. Multimathemacy and education: general principles.- 6. Learning formal thinking in a culture-specific context.- 7. Combined mathematical operations: Locating and representing, measuring, designing, traditional building, archaeological digging, dancing, computer designing, storytelling, buying and selling.- 8. Education in a school context.- 9. General conclusions.- 10. Appendix: Human Beings as Learners-in-Context: A Motor for the Capability Approach.- Bibliography.