caa a22 4500 445881844 CHVBK 20180317145546.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20111101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10649-011-9328-z doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10649-011-9328-z Politics in an Indian canyon? Some thoughts on the implications of ethnomathematics [Elektronische Daten] [Rik Pinxten, Karen François] Working with Navajo Indian informants in Arizona, USA we became aware of the capabilities of children and adults to find their way in vast and clearly "chaotic” canyons. One thing we did was describe what people actually did and said about their ways to find the way back home in such contexts. A second one was to use these data in order to build a curriculum book for a bicultural school on the Navajo reservation. We start from this example to ask what the political choices are, which we confront when working with such material: how much mathematics (or is it Mathematics) is needed in daily life? And what mathematics should we promote or develop, without becoming colonialist again? In Section2, we discuss the meaning and the status of ethnomathematics, proposing that it would be the generic category which allows for a more systematic and comparative study of the whole domain of mathematical practices. In Section3, we introduce the concept of multimathemacy (after multiliteracy) to discuss the political agenda of ethnomathematics. We argue that multimathemacy should be the basis of the curriculum in order to guarantee optimal survival value for every learner. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2011 Ethnomathematics nationallicence Multimathemacy nationallicence Navajo Indians nationallicence Mathematics curriculum nationallicence Political agenda nationallicence Pinxten Rik University of Ghent, Blandynberg 2, 9000, Gent, Belgium aut François Karen Free University of Brussels, Pleinlaan 2, 1050, Brussel, Belgium aut Educational Studies in Mathematics Springer Netherlands 78/2(2011-11-01), 261-273 0013-1954 78:2<261 2011 78 10649 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10649-011-9328-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10649-011-9328-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Pinxten Rik University of Ghent, Blandynberg 2, 9000, Gent, Belgium aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- François Karen Free University of Brussels, Pleinlaan 2, 1050, Brussel, Belgium aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Educational Studies in Mathematics Springer Netherlands 78/2(2011-11-01), 261-273 0013-1954 78:2<261 2011 78 10649 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer