Reflexão & Ação (Dec 2012)

THE RESEARCH IN ETHNOMATHEMATICS AND THE LIMITS OF CULTURE

  • Alexandre Pais

DOI
https://doi.org/10.17058/rea.v20i2.3226
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 20, no. 2
pp. 32 – 48

Abstract

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In this article I discuss some problematic issues concerning ethnomathematics research, namely the ones related with its educational implications. Certain ethnomathematical assumptions at the level of epistemology, pedagogy and politics, lack a theoretical basis, thus making difficult for Ethnomathematics to posit itself in relation to local knowledge and school. As a consequence, Ethnomathematics research can be easily domesticated, ending up reproducing in practice what is criticized at a discursive level.