TEM A PALAVRA… WILFREDO VIDAL ALANGUI NUM TRIBUTO A UBIRATAN D’AMBROSIO

Resumo

In D’Ambrosio’s ethnomathematics, the evolution of ideas and their influence on historical developments, in particular, the dominance of the Eurocentric conception of mathematics and its role in shaping human and social behaviour, became a central problematique. D’Ambrosio’s impact is that he has gathered together under the umbrella of ethnomathematics passionate mathematics educators inspired to do better as educators and turn their discipline of mathematics education into a vehicle to change world. Subverting long held notions about mathematics may be likened to a project of decolonization. To hold an alternative view of the nature, history and purpose of mathematics is to hold alternative knowledges, which, according to Maori scholar Linda Tuhiwai Smith, has the pedagogical implication of providing the basis for alternative ways of doing things. Thus, one lasting legacy of ethnomathematics is in the field of Indigenous Peoples’ education that advances indigenous ways of thinking, including in ‘mathematics.’