Caribbean Curriculum

Vol. 15 (2008)
Articles

The Potentials of Embodied and Ethnomathematical Perspectives for Caribbean Mathematics Education

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  • Steven Khan
Steven Khan
The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus
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Keywords

  • Mathematics Education,
  • Embodied Mathematics,
  • Ethnomathematics,
  • Curriculum Development,
  • Secondary School Curriculum,
  • Trinidad and Tobago
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The Potentials of Embodied and Ethnomathematical Perspectives for Caribbean Mathematics Education. (2015). Caribbean Curriculum, 15, 133-154. https://journals.sta.uwi.edu/ojs/index.php/cc/article/view/612

Abstract

In this paper, I explore the potential value of adopting embodied and ethnomathematical perspectives in the specific context of mathematical education in Trinidad and Tobago. I suggest that ideas representing overlaps among the domains of embodied cognition and ethnomathematics are manifested in the reform-oriented mathematics curriculum documents of the Trinidad and Tobago Secondary Education Modernization Programme (SEMP), and provide a simple example of one area where such an investigation might potentially begin.
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