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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.
Preface; Valerie Walkerdine.
Series Editor's Foreword.
Acknowledgments.
Chapter 1. Introduction: Postmodernism Meets Mathematics Education; Margaret Walshaw.
Part I. Thinking Otherwise for Mathematics Education.
Chapter 2. Postmodernism and the Subject of Mathematics; Paul Ernest.
Chapter 3. Postmodernism as an Attitude of Critique to Dominant Mathematics Education Research; Paola Valero.
Chapter 4. Toward a Postmodern Ethics of Mathematics Education; Jim Neyland.
Part II. Postmodernism Within Classroom Practices.
Chapter 5. Facilitating Access and Agency within the Discourses and Culture of Beginning School; Agnes Macmillan.
Chapter 6. There's No Hiding Place: Foucault's Notion of Normalization at Work in a Mathematics Lesson; Tansy Hardy.
Chapter 7. The Pedagogical Relation in Postmodern Times: Learning with Lacan; Margaret Walshaw.
Chapter 8. Affect and Cognition in Pedagogical Transference: A Lacanian Perspective; Tânia Cabral.
Part III. Postmodernism Within the Structures of Mathematics Education.
Chapter 9. Identifying with Mathematics in Initial Teacher Training; Tony Brown, Liz Jones, and Tamara Bibby.
Chapter 10. So What's Power Got to Do with It?; Tamsin Meaney.
Chapter 11. Why Mathematics? Insights from Poststructural Topologies; M. Jayne Fleener.
Chapter 12. What Can I Say, and What Can I Do? Archaeology, Narrative, and Assessment; Tony Cotton.
Author Index.
Subject Index.
About the Contributors.