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Direct linkSkovsmose, Ole – For the Learning of Mathematics, 2011
Modern conceptions of critique express preoccupations with obtaining certainty and truth, with establishing foundations, and with linking knowledge and rationality. Modern conceptions of critique have been challenged, and critique has taken new formats. In particular critique has developed without demands of providing foundations for knowledge and…
Descriptors: Imagination, Mathematics Education, Mathematical Concepts, Correlation
Peer reviewedSkovsmose, Ole – For the Learning of Mathematics, 2000
Critical mathematics education cannot be translated into principles. Aims to search for a working philosophy of mathematics for critical mathematics education. Concludes that aporism attempts to consider mathematics in its social, cultural, and political complexities, and to express uncertainties about mathematics' possible role as an educational…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Educational Philosophy, Elementary Secondary Education, Mathematics Education
Peer reviewedAlro, Helle; Skovsmose, Ole – For the Learning of Mathematics, 1998
Discusses how communication functions in the mathematics classroom and the consequences that result from those processes. Provides vignettes and examples of classroom communications. (ASK)
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning, Mathematics Instruction
Peer reviewedBorba, Marcelo C.; Skovsmose, Ole – For the Learning of Mathematics, 1997
Presents one aspect that makes mathematics the final word in many discussions, the ideology of certainty. Argues that one way of challenging the ideology of certainty is to change classroom practice by introducing a landscape of discussion on chaotic nature where relativity, provisional starting points, different points of view, and uncertainty…
Descriptors: Discussion, Educational Philosophy, Educational Technology, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedAlro, Helle; Skovsmose, Ole – For the Learning of Mathematics, 1996
Contends that the role of mistakes and corrections of mistakes in classroom practice reveals a certain philosophy of mathematics and that the way mistakes are handled promotes such an implicit philosophy. (MKR)
Descriptors: Beliefs, Elementary Secondary Education, Mathematics Education, Mathematics Instruction
Peer reviewedAlro, Helle; Skovsmose, Ole – For the Learning of Mathematics, 1996
Provides examples and a discussion of the Inquiry Cooperation Model (ICM). The ICM is a way of describing a pattern of communicative cooperation between teacher and students. It tries to develop students' preconceptions into mathematical competence. Contains 15 references. (DDR)
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Concept Formation, Constructivism (Learning), Discourse Analysis
Peer reviewedSkovsmose, Ole – For the Learning of Mathematics, 1992
Discusses people's need for facility in calculating and using mathematical techniques to participate in the understanding and transformation of their society. Topics discussed include the relationship between democracy and education; democratic competence; democracy in a technological society; the role of mathematics in society; and reflective…
Descriptors: Citizenship Responsibility, Critical Thinking, Democracy, Democratic Values
