Asphalt Children and City Streets: A Life, a City, and a Case Study of History, Culture, and Ethnomathematics...

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Monica Mesquita Sal Restivo

Asphalt Children and City Streets

A Life, a City, and a Case Study of History, Culture, and Ethnomathematics in Sao Paulo

Monica Mesquita, Sal Restivo, Ubiratan D'Ambrosio

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English

Sense Publishers
01 January 2011

Education; Multicultural education; Educational: Mathematics & numeracy

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This work explores the urban experiences of street children in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Through the mathematical epistemic regimes at the core of their survival strategies. We also draw attention to the situation of street children across time, space, culture and history. Our Goal is to recognize, understand, and validate forms of mathematics constructed and used outside of the established institutions of mathematical production. We base our analysis on The mathematical imagination , theoretically, we draw heavily on the Durkheimian tradition in sociology and anthropology. We focus on a form of practice that links the formal and informal and the informal in order to realize the fill power of mathematical knowledge as a social thing (in Durkheim's Sense), a product of the collective consciousness that expresses collective realties and a category of knowledge present in every culture. This is as true for mathematics at the margins as it is for professional mathematics. Our work contributes to an emerging political manifesto of the marginal that demonstrates the social realities and social power of their mathematics. This book should be of interest of Social Scientists, Students of mathematics and ethnomathematics, and everyone interested in the situation of marginalized children.

By: Monica Mesquita, Sal Restivo, Ubiratan D'Ambrosio
Imprint: Sense Publishers
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 11mm
Weight: 405g
ISBN: 9789460916328
ISBN 10: 9460916325
Pages: 172
Publication Date: 01 January 2011
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active