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Record Nr.

UNINA9910299507303321

Titolo

Contemporary Environmental and Mathematics Education Modelling Using New Geometric Approaches : Geometries of Liberation / / edited by Susan Gerofsky

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Pivot, , 2018

ISBN

9783319725239

3319725238

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIII, 132 p. 23 illus., 21 illus. in color.)

Disciplina

510.71

Soggetti

Environmental education

Mathematics - Study and teaching

Education - Philosophy

Environmental and Sustainability Education

Mathematics Education

Educational Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction: Geometries of Liberation -- 2. Shaped by the Places We Reason? Contrasting the Rectilinearity of Western Educational Thought with Other Possibilities -- 3. Ecofractal Poetics: Five Fractal Geometries for Creative, Sustainable, and Just Educational Design -- 4. Always an Abundance: Interstitial/Liminal Space, Time, and Resources that Are Invisible to the Grid -- 5. The Curricular Geometries of *SAMBA* Schools: Fractal Dimensions, Surface, Depth, and Recursion -- 6. Of Grids and Gardens: School Gardening and the Unsettling Attachments of Teaching Beside the Grid -- 7. Off the Grid.

Sommario/riassunto

This book takes a fresh approach to using educational tools to solve profound problems in societies. The authors bring perspectives from curriculum studies, mathematics education, environmental education, and Indigenous epistemologies to a new consideration of “geometries to think with”. These tools reveal the wealth of resources and interrelationships in our world that have the potential to reconfigure



and revitalize education. The transdisciplinary nature of the chapters and authors emphasizes the need for thinking beyond boundaries, while respecting the wisdom inherent in intellectual disciplines and traditions.