Culturally-responsive mathematics pedagogy through complexivist thinking

Authors

Wendy S. Nielsen, University of WollongongFollow
Cynthia Nicol, University of British Columbia
Jenipher Owuor, University of British Columbia

RIS ID

29131

Publication Details

Nielsen, W. S., Nicol, C. & Owuor, J. (2008). Culturally-responsive mathematics pedagogy through complexivist thinking. Complicity: an international journal of complexity in education, 5 (1), 33-47.

Abstract

This paper uses a complexity lens to consider the pedagogical project of culturally responsive mathematics. Need for new and different theoretical perspectives for Aboriginal education arise from chronic underachievement among Canada’s Aboriginal students. Culturally responsive mathematics pedagogy as a complex learning system allows a different view into the interrelationships and necessary conditions between culture, education and society, a view that aims to open new possibility for curriculum development, Aboriginal schooling and cultural renewal, while ensuring success for students.