Veronica Albanese

Pensar matemáticamente: una visión etnomatemática de la práctica artesanal soguera

Esta investigacion se hizo posible gracias a la Beca FPU (AP2010-0235) concedida a la doctoranda V. Albanese desde el Ministerio de Educacion, Cultura y Deporte del Gobierno de Espana.

The Evolution of Ethnomathematics: Two Theoretical Views and Two Approaches to Education

The Ethnomathematics program is in continuous evolution. At the beginning of its history, Ethnomathematics had the purpose of recognizing ideas and practices of different cultural groups but it subsequently evolved to embrace wider studies centered on the ways in which cultural and social context affects the process of generation, organization and communication of knowledge. We propose two views of Ethnomathematics that respond to this evolution: (1) mathematics of cultural practices and (2) different ways of thinking. The first view implies recognizing mathematics in the practices of cultural groups, and this research is performing in accordance to the categories and schemes of thinking of the researcher’s culture. The second view implies discovering different ways of knowing quantity, space and relations, considering a broader concept of (ethno)mathematics where the categories and schemes of thinking of the studied cultural group are taken into consideration. Thus, we point out which implications for Mathematics Education each of these two views suggests. On the one hand, the idea of mathematics in cultural practices involves designing tasks that are contextualized in the cultural heritage. On the other hand, the idea of a different way of knowing can help to reflect on certain mathematical notions or on the nature of mathematical knowledge.

Thinking mathematically: an ethnomathematics view of the art and crafts practice of soguería

Esta investigacion se hizo posible gracias a la Beca FPU (AP2010-0235) concedida a la doctoranda V. Albanese desde el Ministerio de Educacion, Cultura y Deporte del Gobierno de Espana.

Pensar matemáticamente: una visión etnomatemática de la práctica soguera

Esta investigacion se hizo posible gracias a la Beca FPU (AP2010-0235) concedida a la doctoranda V. Albanese desde el Ministerio de Educacion, Cultura y Deporte del Gobierno de Espana.