El papel de la red latinoamericana de etnomatemática en la conformación de una comunidad académica

El presente trabajo tiene como objetivo dar a conocer a los educadores matemáticos y a los etnomatemáticos la existencia y la labor que ha desempeñado, en sus primeros cinco años, la Red Latinoamericana de Etnomatemática (RELAET) en América Latina, en la conformación y consolidación de una comunidad académica interesada en los aspectos sociales y culturales de la Educación Matemática.

Una experiencia de capacitación en etnomatemática

El presente trabajo describe las experiencias de capacitación, llevadas a cabo en la ciudad de Pdcia R. Sáenz Peña, provincia del Chaco (Rep. Argentina), en el marco del Programa de Actualización y Perfeccionamiento 2008 en servicio a los docentes de la provincia en el nivel medio y superior. Mediante la documentación narrativa se pretende compartir tiempos, espacios y recursos para que los colegas puedan compartir con las autoras lo que pasa y pasó en ellos cuando tuvieron un primer acercamiento académico con la etnomatemática. La propuesta apunta amalgamar enseñanza con investigación, aproximándose hasta el punto de delinear un modelo de enseñanza cuya base fundamental es la investigación, que nutre a la acción y ayuda a los profesores a teorizar acerca de su enseñanza.

Etnomatemática e discurso performático: a construção de identidades na escola

Este trabalho objetiva apresentar as reflexões decorrentes de uma pesquisa, realizada com mais de sessenta alunos em uma escola privada da cidade de São Paulo, que procurou avaliar como concebem diferentes povos africanos e indígenas, com a hipótese de que a escola, bem como a Educação que propõe, contribua para construção de representações incompletas dessas identidades. Além disso, o discurso descritivo apresentado pelos alunos foi entendido a partir do conceito de performatividade de Butler (1993), segundo o qual alguns discursos supostamente descritivos seriam capazes de, além de descrever um indivíduo ou um grupo, criar sobre tal indivíduo ou grupo uma representação de identidade vinculada à descrição feita. Associa-se tal construção às perspectivas de Vergani (2007) sobre exclusão, observando o modo como a Educação articula discursos e ideias provenientes do senso comum no cotidiano escolar para refletir sobre suas possíveis consequências, sob a perspectiva da Etnomatemática de D’Ambrosio (1999; 2011).

Etnomatemática: eje central de la recuperación de saberes matemáticos. Experiencia de América latina y retos para Costa Rica

El presente artículo recopila la experiencia de expertos en la etnomatemática, de un grupo de discusión en RELME 27. Sus cuestionamientos se fundamentan, en la etnomatemática y el impacto de esta en el currículo escolar. Se toma en cuenta las características sociales del sistema educativo latinoamericano, los objetivos de desarrollo del milenio y el impacto de ambos, sobre la educación matemática de los pueblos originarios. Se plantean retos futuros y una visión sobre la recuperación de los saberes matemáticos. Metodológicamente se sustenta como una investigación de enfoque cualitativo, con diseño de teoría fundamental, donde sus datos se analizan por codificación abierta axial.

Educació matemàtica, etnomatemàtica i pau. 'Educación matemática, etnomatemática y paz'.

Resumen tomado de la publicación en catalán. Este artículo forma parte del monográfico 'Etnomatemàtiques: matemàtica per a la diversitat'

Etnomatemàtica i llenguatge. 'Etnomatemática y lenguaje'.

Resumen tomado de la publicación en catalán. Este artículo forma parte del monográfico 'Etnomatemàtiques: matemàtica per a la diversitat'

Etnomatemàtica, política i persones adultes. 'Etnomatemática, política y personas adultas'.

Resumen tomado de la publicación en catalán. Este artículo forma parte del monográfico 'Etnomatemàtiques: matemàtica per a la diversitat'

A Contribuição da etnomatemática na aprendizagem significativa dos aprendizes na comunidade Quilombola numa perspectiva etnográfica

A Educação Matemática é uma parte essencial da educação, tão importante como a leitura e a escrita, destacando a presença da Matemática como instrumento de análises, interpretações de dados estatísticos, mensuração, entre outros. Abordamos na pesquisa três categorias: etnomatemática numa perspectiva de superação da prática tradicional ainda presente no ensino da matemática; inovação pedagógica como premissa na contemporaneidade, afirmar que a inovação pedagógica constitui uma ruptura de natureza cultural das práticas desumanizadoras, antidialógicas é aderir ao novo paradigma educacional construtivista, sem apego às práticas anteriores. Ser inovador é estar constantemente reflexivo de sua prática educativa e a aprendizagem significativa numa dimensão de valorização dos conhecimentos prévios como principal instrumento para construção dos conhecimentos sistematizados. Investigamos a contribuição da etnomatemática na aprendizagem significativa dos aprendizes na comunidade quilombola. O campo de estudo foi a Escola Alfredo Gomes de Araújo no Distrito de Trigueiros-Vicência-PE, Brasil. Os sujeitos da pesquisa foram os aprendizes e a educadora que leciona matemática no sétimo ano do Ensino Fundamental na citada escola. Os resultados da pesquisa demonstram que a etnomatemática contribui para inovação pedagógica, proporcionando aprendizagem significativa nos diversos contextos que foram submetidos, desenvolvendo o senso crítico, a criatividade, a curiosidade, a metacognição, o autoconhecimento, o protagonismo, as relações intraculturais e interculturais, entre outros. Foi desenvolvida uma metodologia qualitativa de caráter etnográfico, justificada pela natureza do estudo. Desenvolveu-se com a presença da investigadora no ambiente natural dos sujeitos, visando à descrição pormenorizada dos fenômenos estudados buscando entendimento e compreensão dos aspectos culturais e os significados vivenciados no âmbito da turma pesquisada. Para recolha dos dados foram utilizadas observações participantes, diário etnográfico, entrevistas semiestruturadas, essas técnicas constituíram os principais recursos da investigação empírica e para complementar as observações e os registros, fizemos notas de campo, conversas informais, recolhidos durante a estada no campo pesquisado.

Investigação etnomatemática em contextos indígenas: caminhos para a reorientação da prática pedagógica

From the investigation, analysis, discussion and pondering about the activities developed by the lndians from the Porteira hamlet, members of the Xerente community, in the Tocantins state, we developed an investigative and descriptive study about the reality of this people with the aim of helping in the conceptual formation and in the reorientation of the pedagogical practice of the local teachers. In this sense, the undertaken research involved the teachers, the main representatives and experts in that cultural tradition, in order to investigate how the everyday activities (agriculture, food handling, assets distribution among the community members, etc.) and the cultural tradition (log race, body painting, clan division, Xerente numeration, Indian myths and histories, etc.), may enable the contextualization of the mathematics teaching in the lndian School Srêmtôwê of this hamlet, under a more transversal and globalizing perspective of the local and school knowledge. We based this research in the sociocultural conceptions of knowledge generation proposed by D Ambrosio (1990; 2002); Vergani (2007); Oliveras (1996); Gerdes (1991; 2002); Bishop (1999) e Sebastiani Ferreira (1997; 2004). ln the process of this study we propose some viable ways so that the Indian teachers may reorganize their classroom knowledge and actions, based in the strengthening of their history and culture. The observation of some social practices and knowledge as well as of the Xerente traditions helped us to point some possibilities of projection of a didacticalpedagogical dimension of these activities and practices, in the development of the school mathematical knowledge in this community

Pedagogia etnomatemática : ações e reflexões em matemática do Ensino Fundamental com um grupo sócio cultural específico

mongst the trends in Mathematics Education, which have as their object a more significant and criticallearning, is the Ethnomathematics. This field of knowledge, still very recent amongst us, besides analyzing an externalist history of the sciences in a search for a relationship between the development of the scientific disciplines and the socio-cultural context, goes beyond this externalism, for it also approaches the intimate relationships betwe_n cognition and culture. In fact, the Ethnomathematics proposes an alternative epistemological approach associated with a wider historiography. It struggles to understand the reality and come to the pedagogical action by means of a cognitive approach with strong cultural basis. But the difficulty of inserting the Ethnomathematics into the educational context is met by resistance from some mathematics educators who seem indifferent to the influence of the culture on the understanding of the mathematics ideas. It was with such concerns in mind that I started this paper that had as object to develop a curricular reorientation pedagogical proposal in mathematics education, at the levei of the 5th grade of the Ensino Fundamental (Elementary School), built from the mathematical knowledge of a vegetable farmers community, 30 km away from the center of Natal/RN, but in accordance with the teaching dimensions of mathematics of the 1 st and 2nd cycles proposed by the Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais - PCN: Numbers and Operations, Space and Form, Units and Measures, and Information Treatment. To achieve that, I developed pedagogical activities from the mathematical concepts of the vegetable farmers of that community, explained in my dissertation research in the period 2000 through 2002. The pedagogical process was developed from August through Oecember 2007 with 24 students of the 5th Grade of the Ensino Fundamental (Elementary School) of the school of that community. The qualitative analysis of the data was conducted taking into account three categories of students: one made up of students that helped their parents in the work with vegetables. Another one by students whose parents and relatives worked with vegetables, though they did not participate directly of this working process and one third category of students that never worked with vegetables, not to mention their parents, but lived adjacent to that community. From the analyses and results of the data gathered by these three distinct categories of students, I concluded that those students that assisted their parents with the daily work with vegetables solved the problem-situations with understanding, and, sometimes, with enriching contributions to the proposed problems. The other categories of students, in spite of the various field researches to the gardens of that community, before and during the pedagogical activities, did not show the same results as those students/vegetable farmers, but showed interest and motivation in ali activities of the pedagogical process in that period

Pedagogia de projetos e etnomatemática: caminhos e diálogos na zona rural de Mossoró - RN

Teaching Mathematics in a contextualized and significant manner, in the world of the child and the adolescent, requires a solid theoretical and methodological basis on the part of the researcher. The present work found this foundation in two ways: teaching with projects and ethnomathematics. It is understood that these ways have points in common, such as: the real, interdisciplinarity, teaching methods, flexibility in sequencing the curriculum and interactive learning. This makes possible a theoretical cross-fertilization, which is important for the teaching/learning of Mathematics. Those points are merged in the present proposal, making possible new strategies, distinct from those of the Traditional Teaching Methodology and giving raise to an Alternative Teaching Methodology, which is to be lived in the Mathematics classrooms. This work gives a new direction to teaching, going beyond the traditional forms of education by allowing the teaching of Mathematics to become integrated with other school subjects, resulting in significant learning. In order to implement the proposal, it is necessary to form partnerships with teachers, pupils and the whole community, so that the way can be traced by continual dialogue

Espaços transversais em educação matemática :uma contribuição para a formação de professores na perspectiva etnomatemática

This PH.D. thesis is an attempt to show the beginning, evolution and unfolding of the making of a pedagogical work proposal based on culturally-built knowings in the heart of a traditional community, having as one of its starting points the knowings and doings experienced by dish-making women from Maruanum living in the city of Macapá, State of Amapá, Brazil. This proposal is strongly associated with the need we have to think about the nature of (ethnological)-mathematical knowledge generated by particular communities and about the way such knowledge can be discussed, worked out, and validated in learning environments, regardless of the level of instruction and the constraints imposed by government programs and educational institutions. Among its theoretical foundations are studies on instrumental activities that are typical of the Maruanum ceramics and investigative studies from the point of view of ethnomathematics. Methodological development took place with the application of activities, where traditional and instrumental knowledge observed in the production of ceramics had been adapted for and brought into the school environment , participative observation, as well as data collecting and organization techniques, such as interviews, statements, and audio an visual recordings. Analysis of the data collected focused on the relationship between the data-generating potential and the purpose of this study. Our aim is to make and estimate of the potential contributions from local situations and/or problems it would possibly bring to the formative learning of people involved in the educational processes of these communities, with a view to a spatial and temporal transformation of reality

A etnomatemática em uma cerâmica da região do Seridó/RN

This work has as objective to describe mathematical knowledge used as tools in the manufacture and marketing of tiles of red ceramic by potters of the Currais Novos village/ RN, located 250 km from the capital of Rio Grande do Norte. For us to reach our objective, we rely on conceptions ambrosianas of Ethnomatematics, besides of the qualitative research in an ethnographic approach. In the empirical part of the research, that went it accomplishes in the period from 2009 to 2012 in the Currais Novos Village, we support the following tools for data collection, semi-structured interviews, field diary, photographs, audio recordings and participant observations. In the analysis of the collected data, we can conclude that there are mathematical knowledge in the management of manufacture and marketing of tiles, often different from the academic mathematics, mainly in the wood cube, on cube of the clays, in the handler with the measures time, the count method , in the arrangement of tiles, in the preparation of the ceramic mass and sale of tiles. Theses knowledge were described and analyzed in the light of the theoretical Ethnomatematics, also supported in official documents, such as Parameters Nacional Curriculares. The analyzes of these knowledge generated subsidies for elaboration of an educational product - a proposal of didactic sequence destined to the Teaching of Mathematics in Elementary and Middle levels for the community schools and region, this proposal is in the Appendix to this work