@inbook{583685c0a1ab11dc8188000ea68e967b,
title = "In between the Global and the Local: the politics of mathematics education reform in a globalized society",
abstract = "Understanding recent globalization processes demands grasping the relationship between the social practices in micro-contexts and macro-contexts, in search of the mechanisms that have worsened the distribution of material, human and knowledge resources in the world. If mathematics education research and practices are to be committed to social equity and justice in the midst of globalization, then they need to address the ways in which they are implicated in the production of a particular social order. In order to do so, mathematics education research needs to open its scope and allow linking the classroom with other spheres of social action. In this way it is possible to gain a broader understanding of the multiple forces that constitute mathematics education, and particularly its reform. Based on a case of a Colombian school, the paper illustrates the way in which mathematics education is being constituted in between macro, global and micro, local contexts in a time of reform ",
keywords = "globalisation, mathematics education and society",
author = "Paola Valero",
year = "2007",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-1-4020-5907-0",
series = "Mathematics Education Library",
publisher = "IEEE Computer Society Press",
pages = "421--439",
editor = "Bill Atweh and \{Calabrese Barton\}, Angela and Marcelo Borba and Noel Gough and Christine Keitel and Catherine Vistro-Yu and Renuka Vithal",
booktitle = "Internationalisation and Globalisation in Mathematics and Science Education",
address = "United States",
}