Project

Society, culture and the brain: the sociocultural and biosocial foundation of formal learning

Code
01T02611
Duration
01 January 2012 → 31 December 2012
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Social sciences
    • Education curriculum
    • Education systems
    • General pedagogical and educational sciences
    • Specialist studies in education
    • Other pedagogical and educational sciences
    • Anthropology
Keywords
ethnomathematics learning culture
 
Project description

In the anthropological-eicational perspective of ethnomathematics we investigate how native procedures of learning and preschool concepts impact on formal thinking (mainly basic mathematics). Linked with the culture-sensitive learning theories (Vygitsky to M. Cole) curricula and learning procedures are elaborated yielding success in the schooling of formal thinking (math). The visit of pror. Sal Restivo (Rennselaer pol., NY) as eminent researcher, wil finalise collaboration for a joint book publication.