The International Commission on Mathematical Instruction (ICMI) studies are unique in that they create opportunities to bring together large numbers and a diver-sity of scholars across countries and all kinds of practitioners to discuss a particular topic and generate publications deemed important and useful for different commu-nities. An international study on school mathematics…
As critical science studies scholar Karen Barad (2010) reminds us, “thepresent is not simplyhere-now” (p. 244, emphasis mine). Rather, it isalso a dis/continuous enfolding of heterogenousthere-thens.1This isto say that the central process of this book—accounting for and beingaccountable to the uneven and unequal relation between Indigenousmetaphysics and classical Western metaphysics by w…
Doctoral education has become a key element of the higher education landscape everywhere. With the spread of higher education massification and the rise of the global knowledge economy that began in the late twentieth century and continues today, doctoral education has expanded tremendously. There have been significant changes in doctoral education worldwide in the twent…
The history curriculum is never static. It is the result of an ongoing relationship between the present and the past. What is selected for study, as well as what is omitted, reflects the priorities and concerns of the present. This chapter presents a brief disciplinary history, highlighting the changing, and persisting, priorities from the nineteenth c…