Professor DALENE SWANSON's Outputs (4)

(Re)imagining spatialities for equity in mathematics education (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Swanson, D. M., & le Roux, K. (2021, September). (Re)imagining spatialities for equity in mathematics education. Presented at Eleventh International Mathematics Education and Society Conference, Austria

Contemporary discourse about the ‘opening’/‘closing’ of schools and what is ‘inside’/‘outside’ the curriculum potentially exacerbates existing inequities in mathematics education. This paper explores how different spatial imaginaries might advance or... Read More about (Re)imagining spatialities for equity in mathematics education.

Global citizenship’s double-facedness: embracing contradiction towards radical hope (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Swanson, D. M., & Gamal, M. (2021, May). Global citizenship’s double-facedness: embracing contradiction towards radical hope. Paper presented at 4th Academic Network on Global Education and Learning (ANGEL) Conference: Pedagogy of Hope and Global Social Justice, London, UK (online)

'Global citizenship’ entered public parlance prominently during heightened globalisation. To be a citizen of this new globalised, interconnected world was to be a subject of capital. Like Janus, a subject of this neoliberal world order was to be both... Read More about Global citizenship’s double-facedness: embracing contradiction towards radical hope.

De/Mathematising the Political in Mathematics Education: A De/Postcolonial Critique (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chronaki, A., & Swanson, D. M. (2019, January). De/Mathematising the Political in Mathematics Education: A De/Postcolonial Critique. Presented at 10th International Conference on Mathematics Education and Society, Hyderabad, India (Jan 28 - Feb 2, 2019), Hyderabad, India

Various interpretations have been given to the double gesture of
de/mathematising in relation to a variety of social thematic contexts demarcating ‘the political’ in mathematics education. By way of theoretical intervention, we offer the beginnings... Read More about De/Mathematising the Political in Mathematics Education: A De/Postcolonial Critique.

Alternative understandings of equity and their relationship to ethics (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Atweh, B., & Swanson, D. M. (2016, July). Alternative understandings of equity and their relationship to ethics. Presented at 13th International Congress on Mathematical Education, Hamburg, Germany

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 developm... Read More about Alternative understandings of equity and their relationship to ethics.