[Maths-Education] Ethnomathematics and Education

[Paulus Gerdes]

Announcement

Dear friends and colleagues,

Continuing the effort to make books, which were out-of-print for quite
while, anew available, I have the pleasure to announce a new edition
of my book

"Ethnomathematics and Education in Africa",

both in printed paperback format and as free downloadable eBook
(http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/pgerdes).

The book Ethnomathematics and Education in Africa was originally
concluded in 1992 and published in January 1995 by the Institute of
International Education (IIE) of the University of Stockholm (Sweden)
within the framework of the institutional cooperation between the IEE
and the Higher Pedagogical Institute / Pedagogical University in
Mozambique.

The book contains a collection of papers presented at conferences in
Brazil, Kenya, Lesotho, Mozambique, Norway, and Spain and/or published
in international journals, such as "For the Learning of Mathematics"
(FLM), "Educational Studies in Mathematics" (ESM) and "Historia
Mathematica" (HM). The papers date from the period 1986-1992.

The original eleven chapters are: [1] Introduction; [2]
Ethnomathematical research: preparing a response to a major challenge
to mathematics education in Africa; [3] On the concept of
Ethnomathematics; [4] How to recognize hidden geometrical thinking: a
contribution to the development of an anthropology of mathematics
(FLM, 1986); [5] On culture, geometrical thinking and mathematics
education (ESM, 1988); [6] A widespread decorative motif and the
Pythagorean theorem (FLM, 1988); [7] Pythagoras, similar triangles and
the "elephants'-defence"-pattern of the (Ba)Kuba; [8] On possible uses
of traditional Angolan sand drawings in the mathematics classroom
(ESM, 1988); [9] Exploration of the mathematical potential of 'sona';
[10] Technology, art, games and mathematics education: An example;
[11] On the history of mathematics in Africa south of the Sahara (HM,
1994).

The new chapters are: [12] Conditions and strategies for emancipatory
mathematics education in underdeveloped countries (FLM, 1985), and
[13] African slave and calculating prodigy: Bicentenary of the death
of Thomas Fuller (HM, 1990). Chapter [12] was also included in the
book Mathematics Education: Major Themes in Education, Routledge,
London, 2010, Volume 1, 179-189, edited by Alan J. Bishop from Monash
University, Melbourne, Australia. Chapter [13] on Thomas Fuller
(1710-1790) was written together with the late John Fauvel
(1947-2001), and published in Historia Mathematica, New York, Vol. 17,
141-151 (1990).

The book has been out of print for many years. Many colleagues
contacted me to know if the book was still available.

The realisation of the 5th International Conference on
Ethnomathematics in Mozambique in July 2014 constitutes another motif
for re-editing the book, that dates from the years of the emergence -
in various continents - of ethnomathematics as a research field.

The new edition by the Mozambican Higher Institute for Technology and
Management (ISTEG, Boane, Mozambique) is distributed by Lulu
(http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/pgerdes
<http://stores.lulu.com/pgerdes>)

5th International Conference on Ethnomathematics:
ICEM-5 Maputo, Mozambique, July 7-11, 2014

Best regards,

-- 
Paulus Gerdes

Vice-President for Southern Africa, African Academy of Sciences;
Former Chairman, African Mathematical Union Commission for the History of
Mathematics in Africa (1986-2013);
President, International Studygroup for Ethnomathematics;
Former Rector / President, Pedagogical University, Mozambique (1989-1996);
Senior Advisor for Research and Quality, ISTEG-University, Boane, Mozambique
Postal adress: C.P. 915, Maputo, Mozambique
paulus.gerdes at gmail.com
<paulus.gerdes at gmail.com>Books published or distributed by Lulu:
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