Section I. Mathematics Education: For What and Why? Chapter 1. What is Mathematics Education For? Brian Greer Chapter 2. Ethical Responsibility and the "What" and "Why" of Mathematics Education in a Global Context; Bill Atweh Chapter 3. The Demathematising Effect of Technology: Calling for Critical Competence; Uwe Gellert & Eva Jablonka Chapter 4. Mathematical Literacy: Issues of Engagement from the South African Experience of Curriculum Implementation; Mellony Graven & Hamsa Venkat Chapter 5. The Purpose of School Mathematics: Perspectives of Colombian Mathematics Teachers; Cecilia Agudelo-Valderrama Chapter 6. Teaching Mathematics With and For Creativity: An Intercultural Perspective; Roza Leikin Chapter 7.
Whose Mathematics Education? Mathematical Discourses as Cultural Matricide? Fiona Walls Chapter 8. The Tension Between What Mathematics Education Should Be For and What It Is Actually For; Alexandre Pais Chapter 9. Mathematics Education: For Whom? Monica Mesquita Section II. Globalization and Cultural Diversity Chapter 10. Mathematics Education Ideologies and Globalization; Paul Ernest Chapter 11. What is This Thing Called Social Justice and What Does It Have to Do With Us in the Context of Globalization; Bill Atweh Chapter 12. Defrosting and Re-Frosting the Ideology of Pure Mathematics: An Infusion of Eastern-Western Perspectives on Conceptualizing a Socially Just Mathematics Education; Bal Chandra Luitel & Peter Charles Taylor Chapter 13. Mathematics Education and the Brazilian Landless Movement; Gelsa Knijnik Chapter 14.
Kerala Mathematics and Its Possible Transmission to Europe; Dennis Almeida & George Gheverghese Joseph Chapter 15. The Philosophy of Mathematics, Values, and Kerala Mathematics; Paul Ernest Section III. Mathematics, Education, and Society Chapter 16. Classroom Research: Impact and Long Term Effect Versus Justice, Liberation and Empowerment? Paul Ernest Chapter 17. Values and the Social Responsibility of Mathematics; Simon Goodchild Chapter 18. What Has Power Got to Do With Mathematics Education? Paola Valero Chapter 19. Formatting Power of "Mathematics in a Package": A Challenge for Social Theorising? Ole Skovsmose Chapter 20. What is Mathematics About? Ole Skovsmose and Keiko Yasukawa Chapter 21.
Applied Mathematics as Social Contract; Philip Davis Chapter 22. Mathematics and Curriculum Integration: Challenging the Hierarchy of School Knowledge; De Freitas Section IV. Social Justice In, and Through, Mathematics Education Chapter 23. Social Justice and Mathematics Education: Issues, Dilemmas, Excellence and Equity; Bharath Sriraman and Olof Steinhorsdottir Chapter 24. Social Justice and Mathematics: Rethinking the Nature and Purposes of School Mathematics; Kurt Stemhagen Chapter 25. Possibilities and Challenges in Teaching Mathematics for Social Justice; Eric (Rico) Gutstein Chapter 26. Math Education and Social Justice: Gatekeepers, Politics, and Teacher Agency; Peter Applebaum & Erica Davila Chapter 27. On Methodologies of Research Into Gender and Other Equity Questions; Jeff Evans Chapter 28.
The Privilege of Pedagogical Capital: A Framework for Understanding Scholastic Success in Mathematics; Carol V. Livingston Chapter 29. Pupils of African Heritage, Mathematics Education, and Social Justice; Kwame E. Glevey Chapter 30. Researching, and Learning Mathematics at the Margin: From "Shelter" to School; Renuka Vithal.