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Opening the Cage
The picture on the front of this book is an illustration for Totakahini: The tale of the parrot, by Rabindranath Tagore, in which he satirized education as a magnificent golden cage. Opening the cage addresses mathematics education as a complex socio-political phenomenon, exploring the vast terrain that spans critique and politics. Opening the cage includes contributions from educators writing critically about mathematics education in diverse contexts. They demonstrate that mathematics education is politics, they investigate borderland positions, they address the nexus of mathematics, education, and power, and they explore educational possibilities. Mathematics education is not a free enterprise. It is carried on behind bars created by economic, political, and social demands. This cage might not be as magnificent as that in Tagore’s fable. But it is strong. Opening the cage is a critical and political challenge, and we may be surprised to see what emerges.
A Moral Critique of Development
In light of recent criticism of the development ideal, this book comments on how international development might once again become a visionary project.
Rethinking Empowerment
Rethinking Empowerment looks at the changing role of women in developing countries and calls for a new approach to empowerment. An approach that adopts a more nuanced, feminist interpretation of power and em(power)ment, recognises that local empowerment is always embedded in regional, national and global contexts, pays attention to institutional structures and politics and acknowledges that empowerment is both a process and an outcome. Moreover, the book warns that an obsession with measurement rather than process can undermine efforts to foster transformative and empowering outcomes. It concludes that power must be restored as the centrepiece of empowerment. Only then will the term and its advocates provide meaningful ammunition for dealing with the challenges of an increasingly unequal, and often sexist, global/local world.
The Aalborg Experiment
The engineering programmes at Aalborg university are project-organised from the day the freshmen arrive until their graduation. Through this programme Aalborg University has grasped the opportunity to meet the voiced need for education to be more closely aligned to an engineering problem-solving approach. A comprehensive evaluation of programmes in engineering and science has proved the concept to be an effective educational system which produces readily adaptable graduates with strong qualities in the fields of management, problem-solving, co-operation and project work.
Islam, Ethnicity, and Conflict in Ethiopia
Discussing an armed insurgency in Ethiopia (1963-1970), this study offers a new perspective for understanding relations between religion and ethnicity.
