Multiplicity of Mathematical Kknowledge in the Rural Education

• Autor(a) principal: Sachs, Línlya
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Alexandria (Florianópolis)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/alexandria/article/view/1982-5153.2019v12n1p9

This paper aims to address the multiplicity of mathematical knowledge in the context of rural education. Two questions guide the discussion: (a) There is much talk of “knowledge accumulated by mankind”; what knowledge is this and what “mankind” is this?; (b) What knowledge has space in school curricula (especially in mathematics classes)? With regard to question (b), an analysis is made of a collection of textbooks intended for rural schools; and, to answer question (a), in a movement of “going to local knowledge”, the tasks proposed by teachers of initial years of elementary school in a rural school are analyzed, and the statements of these teachers about these tasks. With this discussion, one argues in favor of non-belief in the uniformity of mathematical knowledge, but in the multiplicity of knowledge.