Abstract

ALBANESE, Veronica  and  MESQUITA, Mônica. Unravelling Mathematical Practices and Social Geometry from and with the Fishing Community. Rev. colomb. educ. [online]. 2023, n.87, pp.392-415.  Epub Jan 01, 2023. ISSN 0120-3916.  https://doi.org/10.17227/rce.num87-11941.

The aim of this article the mathematical practices and the social geometry of the distribution of the profit in the fishermen’s community of the Arte-Xávega in Portugal. The research is carried out by combining critical ethnography with communitarian education, in two learning spaces, one belonging to the fishing community and the other to the academic community. Special emphasis will be placed on the participatory nature of the data collection processes and especially on the analysis of information. The discussion will show how mathematical practices affect and are determined by social relations within the fishing community in a process that is constantly evolving, as well as the leading role of mathematical (education) in the search for a more just and equitable society. The research contributes a grain of sand to the reflection on the implications of Ethnomathematics for mathematics (education) as an instrument of transformation of the socioeconomic reality.

Keywords : local-traditional knowledge; communitarian education; social geometry; socioeconomic inequality..

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