Klein, Mary, and Saunders, Linda (2004) How binary thinking in school mathematics masks and maintains its coercive and conservative effects: a poststructuralist analysis. In: Proceedings of the 27th Annual Conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia (2) pp. 336-342. From: Mathematics Education for the Third Millennium: towards 2010, 27 - 30 June 2004, Townsville, QLD, Australia.

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Abstract

In this paper we contemplate the potential dangers of binary thinking in school mathematics. From a poststructuralist perspective, we suggest that binary thinking insinuates itself into classroom practices and relationships and supports or suppresses students’ participation and sense of themselves as competent, numerate persons. As well, binary thinking is conservative in that it blinds educators and researchers, and the students themselves, to the long-term effects of discursive practices that can sometimes result in a ‘dumbing down’ of the curriculum and make authentic participation on the students’ part a pretence.

Item ID:	7757
Item Type:	Conference Item (Research - E1)
ISBN:	978-1-920846-04-6
Keywords:	discourse; mathematics education; poststructuralism
Date Deposited:	29 Jun 2010 03:32
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