The shanai, the pseudosphere and other imaginings: envisioning culturally contextualised mathematics education |
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Authors: | Bal Chandra Luitel Peter Charles Taylor |
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Institution: | (1) Curtin University of Technology, Bentley, Australia |
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Abstract: | Adopting a self-conscious form of co-generative writing and employing a bricolage of visual images and literary genres we
draw on a recent critical auto/ethnographic inquiry to engage our readers in pedagogical thoughtfulness about the problem
of culturally decontextualised mathematics education in Nepal, a country rich in cultural and linguistic diversity. Combining
transformative, critical mathematics and ethnomathematical perspectives we develop a critical cultural perspective on the need for a culturally contextualized mathematics education that enables Nepalese students to develop (rather than
abandon) their cultural capital. We illustrate this perspective by means of an ethnodrama which portrays a pre-service teacher’s
point of view of the universalist pedagogy of Dr. Euclid, a semi-fictive professor of undergraduate mathematics. We deconstruct
the naivety of this conventional Western mathematics pedagogy arguing that it fails to incorporate salient aspects of Nepali
culture. Subsequently we employ metaphorical imagining to envision a culturally inclusive mathematics education for enabling
Nepalese teachers to (i) excavate multiple mathematical knowledge systems embedded in the daily practices of rural and remote
villages across the country, and (ii) develop contextualized pedagogical perspectives to serve the diverse interests and aspirations
of Nepali school children.
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Keywords: | Cultural contextualisation Worldview Mathematics education Arts-based research |
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