ABSTRACT

There is a well-established area of work in mathematics education focusing on mathematics for social justice. Much of the work, however, is concerned with individual students’ understanding the world symbolically – as evident in the notions of reading and writing the world using mathematics – while failing to address a transformative agenda that seeks to make a positive difference in a once-occurrent world that we inhabit together with others as part of our once-occurrent lives. In this conceptual essay, we describe and exemplify a transactional approach that inherently is a practical approach. In the transactional approach, the individual is not merely agent but importantly subject to and constituted by social processes that transform the world including the self.

摘要

数学教育中有一个完善的工作领域，专注于社会正义的数学。但是，大部分工作都与个别学生象征性地理解世界有关（从使用数学阅读和书写世界的观念中可以明显看出），而未能解决旨在一次就产生积极影响的变革性议程，我们与其他人一起居住的偶然世界，是我们曾经生活的一部分。在这篇概念文章中，我们描述并举例说明了一种固有的实践方法-事务性方法。在交易方法中，个人不仅是代理人，而且还重要地服从于并改造着包括自我在内的世界的社会过程。