{"id":1782,"date":"2012-10-04T19:43:10","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T02:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept12\/?p=1782"},"modified":"2012-10-04T19:43:46","modified_gmt":"2012-10-05T02:43:46","slug":"does-math-education-devalue-indigenous-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept12\/2012\/10\/04\/does-math-education-devalue-indigenous-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Math Education &#8230; Devalue Indigenous Culture?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This research paper, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.merga.net.au\/documents\/RP572005.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Does Mathematics Education in Australia Devalue Indigenous<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.merga.net.au\/documents\/RP572005.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"> Culture? Indigenous Perspectives and non-Indigenous Reflections<\/a> (Baturo, Cooper, Matthews &amp; Watego; 2005) has a unique perspective.\u00a0 Two of the researchers are Indigenous people and two of the researchers are not.\u00a0 The paper is written using two different fonts &#8211; each font representing one of the perspectives.\u00a0 The paper states that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;<em>&#8230; it is likely that a stereotypical belief in the primitiveness of Indigenous culture is the driving force behind the actions of mathematics teachers, educators and researchers who work in Indigenous communities<\/em>&#8221; (p. 514)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I need to read and review this paper in greater depth, but I feel that it matches both my research interests and the emphasis of Module 2 on stereotypes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This research paper, Does Mathematics Education in Australia Devalue Indigenous Culture? Indigenous Perspectives and non-Indigenous Reflections (Baturo, Cooper, Matthews &amp; Watego; 2005) has a unique perspective.\u00a0 Two of the researchers are Indigenous people and two of the researchers are not.\u00a0 The paper is written using two different fonts &#8211; each font representing one of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4429,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[163],"tags":[928,2233,908],"class_list":["post-1782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-module-2","tag-indigenous-education","tag-mathematics","tag-stereotypes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1782"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2227,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782\/revisions\/2227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}