Alternative understandings of equity and their relationship to ethics

Atweh, Bill; Swanson, D. M.

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: Jan 13, 2023
• 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