Evidence-based inquiries in ethno-STEM research : investigations in knowledge systems across disciplines and transcultural settings / edited by Iman C. Chahine and Josef de Beer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chahine, Iman C., editor.

De Beer, Josef, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mathematics--Study and teaching--Social aspects.

Mathematics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 405 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Charlotte, North Carolina : Information Age Publishing, Inc., [2021]

Summary:

"The purpose of the edited volume is to provide an international lens to examine evidence-based investigations in Ethno-STEM research: Ethno-science, Ethno-technology, Ethno-engineering, and Ethno-mathematics. These themes grew out of multi-national, multi-institutional and multi-disciplinary efforts to preserve as well as epitomize the role that Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS) play in cognitive development and its vital contributions to successful and meaningful learning in conventional and non-conventional contexts. Principled by the Embodied, Situated, and Distributed Cognition (ESDC), this innovative book will provide evidence supporting the embeddedness of a thinking-in-acting model as a fundamental framework that explains and supports students' acquisition of scientific knowledge. So often 'western' science curricula are experienced as irrelevant, since it does not take cognizance of the daily experiences and world in which the learner finds himself. This book takes a socio-cultural look at IKS and applies research in neuroscience to make a case its incorporation in the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) classroom. We use the Embodied Situated Distributed Cognition (ESDC) Model as conceptual framework in this book. Although the value of IKS is often acknowledged in curriculum policy documents, teachers are most often not trained in incorporating IK in the classroom. Teachers' lack of the necessary pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) in effectively incorporating IK in their classrooms is a tremendous problem internationally. Another problem is that IK is often perceived as "pseudo-science", and scholars advocating for the incorporation of IK in the school curriculum often do not contextualize their arguments within a convincing theoretical and conceptual framework"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Exploring local mathematical knowledge systems by applying ethnomodeling research / Milton Rosa and Daniel Clark Orey

(How) am I doing mathematics? : using concomitant perceptions to uncover the hidden mathematical practices / Nirmala Naresh

Unraveling the mathematics of Ndebele beadwork : transformations on an indigenous Cartesian plane / Alesia Mickle Moldavan

Mathematical card games : a study of Cardfight! vanguard / Alexandra Starke and Jessica Steele

The mathematics of gauge stick in gas stations / Anteneh Kibret

Student-teachers' views on the affordances of incorporating cultural artifacts in mathematics lessons in South Africa / Erica Spangenberg

Mathematical analysis of musical rhythms using the Euclidean algorithm / Elijah Porter

The mathematics in gentlemen's clubs / Hannah Oldham

Geometry at the kitchen table / Jennifer Henderson

Method to the madness : the mathematical structure of method ringing and the application of Hamiltonian graphs to composition / Karen Ratajczak

An examination of the economic, mathematical and social-psychological structures of a bargaining transaction : an exploratory case study in Morocco / Kori Lloyd Hugh Maxwell and Patrice Parker Waller

The art of seeing mathematics / Kimbeni Mansion

The ancient Chinese way of solving high degree polynomial equations / Iwan Elstak

Mathematics teachers' professional development : the case of the indigenous game of NCUVA and the common fraction concept / Martie Van der Walt, Erika Potgieter, and Divan Jagals

Indigenous knowledge in the life sciences classroom : science, pseudoscience or a missing link? : a cultural-historical activity theory perspective / Josef de Beer

Exploring embodied, situated, and distributed cognition : enhancing the inquiry learning experiences of South African science, technology and mathematics learners / Umesh Ramnarain

Indigenous technology knowledge systems viewed through the lens of a philosophical framework for Western technology knowledge systems / Piet Ankiewicz

The Isicholo Zulu hat : an embodiment of South African indigenous technology / Erica Bass Flimmons

"Making" science meaningful and equitable / Colby Tofel-Grehl

Decolonizing through a new tribalism : the recognition of warriors through a re-evolutionizing lifespace in urban Mexico / Sue Kasun and Amita Jyoti Kaneria.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-64802-117-4