Reading and Writing the World with Mathematics: Toward a Pedagogy for Social Justice

by Eric Gutstein and Eric (Rico) Gutstein

Book Overview

Mathematics education in the United States can reproduce social inequalities whether schools use either "basic-skills" curricula to prepare mainly low-income students of color for low-skilled service jobs or "standards-based" curricula to ready students for knowledge-intensive positions. And working for fundamental social change and rectifying injustice are rarely included in any mathematics curriculum. Reading and Writing the World with Mathematics...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 041595083X
• ISBN13: 9780415950831
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.6" x 9.3"