Inhalt: | Mapping the terrain of social practice perspectives of numeracy / Keiko Yasukawa, Kara Jackson, Phil Kane and Diana Coben -- Estimation by kiwifruit orchard managers and urban refuse/recycling operators within their situated horticultural or civic workplace practices : case studies from New Zealand / Phil Kane -- Building stone walls : a case study from the Phillipines / Wilfredo Vidal Alangui -- "Tear it out and rip it up or you might get charged again" : paying debts at the company store in a farm workers' camp in Mexico / Judy Kalman and Diana Solares -- Mathematics in pre-vocational education : a model for interfaces between two different teaching contents / Lisa Björklund Boistrup, Elisabet Bellander and Michael Blaesild -- Word problems as social texts / Richard Barwell -- Broadening school mathematics curriculum : the complexity of teaching mathematical language games of different forms of life / Gelsa Knijnik and Fernanda Wanderer -- "Limits of the local" in theorising numeracy as social practice : a case study of mathematics education in Palestine / Jehad Alshwaikh and Keiko Yasukawa -- Teaching and learning of numeracy in Nepalese primary schools / Mariko Shiohata -- "Occupation of our minds" : a metaphor to explain mathematics education in South Africa in the apartheid era / Herbert Khuzwayo -- Learning for life, from life : adult numeracy and primary school textbooks in India / Anita Rampal -- Critical humanistic pedagogy in the context of adult basic education : making sense of numeracy as social empowerment / Rebecca Nthogo Lekoko, Shanah Mompoloki Suping and Obusitswe Pitso -- The workplace as a site for learning critical numeracy practice / Keiko Yasukawa -- Expanding and deepening the terrain : numeracy as social practice / Kara Jackson, Alan Rogers and Keiko Yasukawa. Learning takes place both inside and outside of the classroom, embedded in local practices, traditions and interactions. But whereas the importance of social practice is increasingly recognised in literacy education, Numeracy as Social Practice: Global and Local Perspectives is the first book to fully explore these principles in the context of numeracy. The book brings together a wide range of accounts and studies from around the world to build a picture of the challenges and benefits of seeing numeracy as social practice that is, as mathematical activities embedded in the social, cultural, historical and political contexts in which these activities take place. Drawing on workplace, community and classroom contexts, Numeracy as Social Practice shows how everyday numeracy practices can be used in formal and non-formal maths teaching and how, in turn, classroom teaching can help to validate and strengthen local numeracy practices. At a time when an increasingly transnational approach is taken to education policy making, this book will appeal to development practitioners and researchers, and adult education, mathematics and numeracy teachers, researchers and policy makers around the world |
