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dc.contributor.authorLuitel, Bal Chandra
dc.contributor.authorTaylor, Peter
dc.contributor.editorJaya Earnest
dc.contributor.editorDavid Treagust
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-30T10:28:37Z
dc.date.available2017-01-30T10:28:37Z
dc.date.created2014-10-28T02:31:42Z
dc.date.issued2006
dc.identifier.citationLuitel, B.C. and Taylor, P. 2006. Envisioning Transition Towards Transformative Mathematics Education: A Nepali Educator's Autoethnographic Perspective, in Earnest, J. and Treagust, D. (ed), Education Reform in Societies in Transition: international perspectives, pp. 91-110. Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Sense Publishers.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/3106
dc.description.abstract

The proposed chapter begins with illustrating how we have termed the Nepali society, and the education system adopted by it, as transitional on the basis of an unstable political system, cultural fluidity, changing economic policies and practices and the growing import of new technologies. With more focus on narrative genre of representation, we shall explore and critique the existing classroom micropolitics in accordance with the notion that Nepal should embrace a critical mathematics education perspective that upholds cultural pluralism and a strong democratic ethos by adopting ethics of communication that promote: (a) respect for the individual learner as a meaning maker and stakeholder in the future of both local and global societies and (b) good social dynamics for negotiating the construction of meaning and promoting critical literacy. Drawing on socio-cultural and public educational perspectives, we shall explore some practical ways to promote the cultural contextualisation of mathematics that can contribute to the development of a sustainable mathematics education program for the primary and secondary schools in Nepal.

dc.publisherSense Publishers
dc.titleEnvisioning Transition Towards Transformative Mathematics Education: A Nepali Educator's Autoethnographic Perspective.
dc.typeBook Chapter
dcterms.source.startPage91
dcterms.source.endPage110
dcterms.source.titleEducation Reform in Societies in Transition
dcterms.source.isbn9077874003
dcterms.source.placeRotterdam, The Netherlands
dcterms.source.chapter7
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