Mathematics Education Within The Postmodern

This book challenges traditional views on mathematics and education, using postmodern perspectives from French intellectuals like Foucault, Lacan, Lyotard, and Deleuze. It offers insights for rethinking theory and practice in mathematics education, addressing relevant issues in researching and teaching mathematics. This timely and accessible book presents a challenge to accepted wisdoms about both the nature of mathematics and of education. The authors of this groundbreaking volume bring to bear on this intersection a postmodern sensibility that engages with the grand narratives of mathematics education. Thus they provide a key resource for rethinking theory and practice in mathematics education. Each of the chapters develops important insights for mathematics education from mainly French intellectuals of the past: Foucault, Lacan, Lyotard, Deleuze. Each chapter addresses issues relevant to mathematics education, researching and teaching mathematics.