Ethnomathematics and Education in Africa (eBook)

New edition of a book originally published in 1995 by the Institute of International Education of the University of Stockholm (Sweden). The book contained a collection of papers on mathematics education and African cultures, dating from the period 1986-1992, published in international journals such as “For the Learning of Mathematics”, “Educational Studies in Mathematics” and “Historia Mathematica.” Besides the original eleven chapters, the present edition contains two new chapters: “Conditions and strategies for emancipatory mathematics education in underdeveloped countries”, and “African slave and calculating prodigy: Bicentenary of the death of Thomas Fuller” (eBook, 284 pp.).