Toward a reflexive mathematics education within local and global relations: thinking from critical scholarship on mathematics education within the sociopolitical, global citizenship education and decoloniality

le Roux, Kate; Swanson, Dalene

Abstract

Education commonly is positioned as central to developing citizens who can address so-called global challenges. Responses are identifiable in global citizenship education, which may recruit mathematics into interdisciplinary relationships, and within mathematics education itself. However, if notions of the global and local, the citizen, mathematics, and mathematics education, are brought together uncritically, responses may inadvertently reproduce the inequities they seek to disrupt. In this conceptual article, we interrogate how and with what implications these notions are given meaning in mathematics education. We also think toward notions of place, subjectivity, relations, mathematics, and mathematics education, in a way that recognises power and differences that matter, without one place being synonymous with the universal, and one peoples considered superior. We articulate these ideas in questions for provoking scholar-practitioners' critical, reflexive thinking. For our contribution, we think from critical scholarship on mathematics education within the sociopolitical, global citizenship education and decoloniality.

Citation

le Roux, K., & Swanson, D. (2022). Toward a reflexive mathematics education within local and global relations: thinking from critical scholarship on mathematics education within the sociopolitical, global citizenship education and decoloniality. Research in Mathematics Education, 23(3), 323-337. https://doi.org/10.1080/14794802.2021.1993978

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Oct 11, 2021
• Online Publication Date: Jan 26, 2022
• Publication Date: Jan 26, 2022
• Deposit Date: Dec 5, 2022
• Publicly Available Date: Jul 27, 2023
• Journal: Research in Mathematics Education
• Print ISSN: 1479-4802
• Electronic ISSN: 1754-0178
• Publisher: Routledge
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 23
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 323-337
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14794802.2021.1993978
• Keywords: Critical global citizenship education; critical decoloniality; critical mathematics education within the sociopolitical
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/14590448
• Publisher URL: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14794802.2021.1993978?journalCode=rrme20
• Additional Information: Peer Review Statement: The publishing and review policy for this title is described in its Aims & Scope.; Aim & Scope: http://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?show=aimsScope&journalCode=rrme20; Received: 2020-11-22; Accepted: 2021-10-11; Published: 2022-01-26