Epistemological issues in the internationalization and globalization of mathematics education

Internationalisation and Globalisation in Mathematics and Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 19-38

  Ernest, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

critical mathematical literacy; cultural difference; epistemology; ethnomathematics; ideology; knowledge economy; knowledge production; mathematized identities; spreadsheet metaphor

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880807496     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5908-7_2     Document Type: Chapter

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