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Alternative understandings of equity and their relationship to ethics

Atweh, Bill; Swanson, D. M.

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Authors

Bill Atweh



Contributors

Gabriele Kaiser
Editor

Abstract

This paper discusses three distinct, yet overlapping and often exchangeable discourses of equity, diversity and social justice in mathematics education. Like all discourses in education, they are
social constructs and have been subjected to development and critique from a variety of perspectives. This paper focuses on poststructuralist discourses, and in particular that of identity,
that renders the traditional understandings of these constructs as problematic for policy and practice. The paper proposes that the discourse of ethics lies at the heart of the three discourses,
and in turn places these discourses at the heart of mathematics education.

Citation

Atweh, B., & Swanson, D. M. (2016). Alternative understandings of equity and their relationship to ethics. In G. Kaiser (Ed.), Proceedings of the 13th International Congress on Mathematical Education (531–535). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62597-3_60

Conference Name 13th International Congress on Mathematical Education
Conference Location Hamburg, Germany
Start Date Jul 24, 2016
End Date Jul 31, 2016
Online Publication Date Nov 2, 2017
Publication Date Jul 24, 2016
Deposit Date Jan 8, 2023
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Pages 531–535
Series Title ICME-13 Monographs
Book Title Proceedings of the 13th International Congress on Mathematical Education
ISBN 9783319625966
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62597-3_60
Keywords mathematics education, equity
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/15925154
Publisher URL https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-62597-3_60

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