Mathematics Education in a Neocolonial Country: The Case of Papua New Guinea

Kay Owens author Patricia Paraide author Philip Clarkson author Charly Muke author Christopher Owens author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Springer Nature Switzerland AG

Published:11th Jan '23

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Most education research is undertaken in western developed countries. While some research from developing countries does make it into research journals from time to time, but these articles only emphasize the rarity of research in developing countries. The proposed book is unique in that it will cover education in Papua New Guinea over the millennia. Papua New Guinea’s multicultural society with relatively recent contact with Europe and the Middle East provides a cameo of the development of education in a country with both a colonial history and a coup-less transition to independence. Discussion will focus on specific areas of mathematics education that have been impacted by policies, research, circumstances and other influences, with particular emphasis on pressures on education in the last one and half centuries. This volume will be one of the few records of this kind in the education research literature as an in-depth record and critique of how school mathematics has been grown in Papua New Guinea from the late 1800s, and should be a useful addition to graduate programs mathematics education courses, history of mathematics, as well as the interdisciplinary fields of cross cultural studies, scholarship focusing on globalization and post / decolonialism, linguistics, educational administration and policy, technology education, teacher education, and gender studies.

“The book eloquently and convincingly describes what I have experienced and sometimes suspected over the years—compliments to the authors for documenting these conditions thoroughly and comprehensively. ... the endeavor of writing this book, written collaboratively between local educators and expatriates, is an example that such collaboration is not only possible but also worthwhile.” (Bill Atweh, Educational Studies in Mathematics, Vol. 115 (3), 2024)

“This volume is clearly intended to be as full a record of the history and current state of mathematics education in PNG as the authors could make it and is clearly mostly of interest to specialists, there may be occasional sections that could interest a more general mathematical or educational reader” (Annie Selden, MAA Reviews, November 21, 2023)

ISBN: 9783030909932

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494 pages

1st ed. 2022