From Peter.Gates at nottingham.ac.uk Sun Mar 9 11:31:04 2025 From: Peter.Gates at nottingham.ac.uk (Peter Gates) Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2025 11:31:04 +0000 Subject: [Maths-Education] Tributes to Ole Skovsmose In-Reply-To: References: <14A37756-025B-497C-A558-4B92D47ED2D3@exmail.nottingham.ac.uk> <81CDFE91-1347-4B05-BA2C-FB5F42A8ECDF@unb.ca> <2CAF9837-BE77-4D18-A69D-BCEDE6F056B6@exmail.nottingham.ac.uk> <0FA813C4-CC96-4F60-B2FF-FFAD8A686EC2@exmail.nottingham.ac.uk> <231bf03018974f459df10bd18ec62b68@aau.at> Message-ID: A reminder for anyone who wants to add a tribute to or memories of Ole Skovsmose to add to the collection, please let me have them in the coming week. Best Wishes, Peter Dr Peter Gates School of Education University of Nottingham Jubilee Campus Nottingham NG8 1BB Tel: +44 (0)773 0808 353 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Ole Skovsmose I am sure very many colleagues will share with me much sadness to hear of the death today of our colleague Ole Skovsmose in Sao Paolo, Brazil. Ole had been ill for some time and had been receiving treatment in hospital. He died with his partner Miriam Penteado, his family, and close friends around him. For over 30 years Ole has been a powerful influence on the discipline of mathematics education, particularly with his work around critical mathematics education, about which he felt and wrote passionately. He had written so much it was often difficult keeping up with his output. I personally have 8 of his books on my bookshelves; It was only a month ago he completed the first draft of a book that he wanted to write for mathematics teachers. I first came across Ole at ICME8 in Seville in 1996. The week before at PME20 in Valencia Tony Cotton and I had decided to organise a Mathematics Education and Society Conference, and Ole was one of the first colleagues we invited to give a Plenary Keynote Lecture. He gave a talk about ?The problem of democracy in mathematics education?. Thirty years later, this is still a pertinent topic, and one he was still focused on. For that we will miss him. Ole first went to University in Copenhagen in 1968 ? the year when we saw the beginning of the widespread international student movement which inspired him in his own personal journey. Ole was not only a writer and philosopher of mathematics education. He was also an accomplished artist. (https://www.artavita.com/artists/7085-ole-skovsmose) I am sure many obituaries will be written about Ole, but if you want to know more about him, he has a website (https://oleskovsmose.com/) and a Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ole_Skovsmose) MES IC is asking for messages of condolence, memories of Ole, comments on his work, anything which people would like to contribute. The IC will collate these and will pass them on to Ole?s family. Please send them in the first instance to me (peter.gates at nottingham.ac.uk). Peter Gates From P.Ernest at exeter.ac.uk Sat Mar 29 14:23:14 2025 From: P.Ernest at exeter.ac.uk (Ernest, Paul) Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2025 14:23:14 +0000 Subject: [Maths-Education] Launch of Ole Skovsmose's book Critical Philosohy of Mathematics, May 2, online In-Reply-To: <1743151157706.7.81908@webmail-backend-production-66c6df7957-6pzlz> References: <1743151157706.7.81908@webmail-backend-production-66c6df7957-6pzlz> Message-ID: Dear Colleagues You will be interested to learn of the online launch of Ole Skovmose's book Critical Philosophy of Mathematics (Springer, 2024, in the series Advances in Mathematics Education edited by Gabriele Kaiser and Bharath Sriraman). This book addresses ethics and applications within mathematical practice as well as what pure mathematicians do. Ole pursued 4 dimensions of Critical Maths Education 1. Critique of Mathematics and Critical Philosophy of Mathematics 2. Critique of Mathematics Education 3. Critical Mathematics Pedagogy 4. Critique of Mathematics in Society This book completes dimension 1 of his project, and adds yet more to dimension 4.. This launch was planned with the author who as you know sadly died last month, but we are all the more determined to continue with this launch event, and to promote his seminal work. Ole Skovsmose's work is located at the growing intersection between mathematics education, the philosophy of mathematical practice, the philosophy of mathematics and critical pedagogy and is of interdisciplinary and cross disciplinary interest. However, we regard him primarily as one of our own, a mathematics educationist, and one of the key figures in the ever growing critical mathematics education movement The launch poster is attached. Please circulate as widely as possible. The link to register for the free launch on 2 May 4:30 pm CET can be found here. A review of the book can be found here https://sites.exeter.ac.uk/pmej/ The Philosophy of Mathematics Education Journal No. 42 (Jan. 2025) in the special issue dedicated to him before his sad passing. Thank you Paul Ernest Emeritus Professor, Exeter University, EX1 2LU, UK Homepage https://sites.exeter.ac.uk/pmej/ for The Philosophy of Mathematics Education Journal. No. 42 (Jan. 2025) out now P. Ernest (2024) The Ethics of Authority and Control in Mathematics Education: From Naked Power to Hidden ??? Ideology. In P. Ernest, Ed. (2024) Ethics and Mathematics Education The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Springer. P. Ernest (2023). The Problems of Necessity and Authority in Mathematics and Education. Journal for Theoretical & ??? Marginal Mathematics Education, Vol. 2, No. 1 (https://www.cppi.me/journal) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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