Numeracy as social practice global and local perspectives / edited by Keiko Yasukawa, Alan Rogers, Kara Jackson and Brian V. Street.
| Other author | Yasukawa, Keiko. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018. |
| Description | pages cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Mapping the terrain of social practice perspectives of numeracy / Keiko Yasukawa, Kara Jackson, Phil Kane and Diana Coben -- Estimation by kiwifruit orchard managers and urban refuse/recycling operators within their situated horticultural or civic workplace practices : case studies from New Zealand / Phil Kane -- Building stone walls : a case study from the Phillipines / Wilfredo Vidal Alangui -- "Tear it out and rip it up or you might get charged again" : paying debts at the company store in a farm workers' camp in Mexico / Judy Kalman and Diana Solares -- Mathematics in pre-vocational education : a model for interfaces between two different teaching contents / Lisa Bj©œrklund Boistrup, Elisabet Bellander and Michael Blaesild -- Word problems as social texts / Richard Barwell -- Broadening school mathematics curriculum : the complexity of teaching mathematical language games of different forms of life / Gelsa Knijnik and Fernanda Wanderer -- "Limits of the local" in theorising numeracy as social practice : a case study of mathematics education in Palestine / Jehad Alshwaikh and Keiko Yasukawa -- Teaching and learning of numeracy in Nepalese primary schools / Mariko Shiohata -- "Occupation of our minds" : a metaphor to explain mathematics education in South Africa in the apartheid era / Herbert Khuzwayo -- Learning for life, from life : adult numeracy and primary school textbooks in India / Anita Rampal -- Critical humanistic pedagogy in the context of adult basic education : making sense of numeracy as social empowerment / Rebecca Nthogo Lekoko, Shanah Mompoloki Suping and Obusitswe Pitso -- The workplace as a site for learning critical numeracy practice / Keiko Yasukawa -- Expanding and deepening the terrain : numeracy as social practice / Kara Jackson, Alan Rogers and Keiko Yasukawa. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2017058016 |
| ISBN | 9781138284449 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 9781138284456 (pbk.) |