How anthropology can contribute to mathematics education

This paper starts from two statements based on a literature review. The first one concerns the learning process and states that learning is situated and socioculturally contextualized. Learning happens in the space of the background and the foreground of the learner in his or her particular environm...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Karen François, Rik Pinxten, Mônica Mesquita
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad de Nariño 2013-01-01
Series:Revista Latinoamericana de Etnomatemática
Online Access:http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=274025755001