A Mathematics Education for the Environment: Connecting Sustainability With Social Justice

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Abstract

The objective of this paper is to first review an ecocritical trend in curriculum studies as it might relate to projects in mathematics education for the environment by highlighting a call to interrelate issues of social and environmental justice and confront Western habits of mind rooted in a logic of domination and human-centric thinking. Relevant ecofeminist thinking further supports our review of such curricular work. Next we analyze a handful of existing scholarship in mathematics education as it relates to this ecocritical trend, revealing that ecocritical mathematics teaching and learning currently exists, albeit without an explicit grounding in ecofeminist theory or ecocritical work.

Authors

• Mark Wolfmeyer, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

• John Joseph Lupinacci, Washington State University - Pullman