This ground-breaking book analyzes contemporary education discourse in the light of
curriculum politics and popular culture, using sources ranging from academic scholarship to …

A great honour was conferred on me a few years ago when right-wing conservative Lynne V.
Cheney (1998), former USA Vice-President Dick Cheney's wife, trashed my work because I …

Mathematics education as a theoretical field has its roots in mathematics classrooms, from
nursery age to those in university. It draws on a range of theoretical resources in developing …

This chapter discusses some of the universalizing forces at work in the globalization and
internationalization of mathematics education. Wikipedia is used a both a definitional source …

Incredible as it would have seemed only a decade ago, the mathematics curriculum of state
schools, enshrined in 296 statements of attainment, is now part of the law of the land. They …

In the past decade a considerable literature, mounting pedagogic and political challenges to
dominant conceptions of school mathematics, has emerged. Conspicuous by its absence …

Most of the chapters in this volume focus on general or particular shortcomings of the
National Curriculum with more or less specific reference to mathematics education. Whilst …

Recent educational discourse is analyzed, using sources drawn from academic literature in
education, canonical literature of professional associations, newspapers and popular …

I suspect that many children would learn arithmetic, and learn it better, if it were illegal Page 1
1 Afterword: Bootleg Mathematics Peter Appelbaum, Arcadia University, USA Chapter …

Søren Kierkegaard once wrote of sitting in the Frederiksberg Garden on a Sunday afternoon,
asking himself what he was going to do with his life. Wherever he looked, practical men …