Contemporary Environmental and Mathematics Education Modelling Using New Geometric Approaches
This book takes a fresh approach to using educational tools to solve profound problems in societies. The authors bring perspectives from curriculum studies, mathematics education, environmental education, and Indigenous epistemologies to a new considerati
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Susan Gerofsky
Contemporary Environmental and Mathematics Education Modelling Using New Geometric Approaches
Susan Gerofsky Editor
Contemporary Environmental and Mathematics Education Modelling Using New Geometric Approaches Geometries of Liberation
Editor Susan Gerofsky Department of Curriculum & Pedagogy University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC, Canada
ISBN 978-3-319-72522-2 ISBN 978-3-319-72523-9 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72523-9 Library of Congress Control Number: 2018944475 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors, and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover illustration: Pattern adapted from an Indian cotton print produced in the 19th century Printed on acid-free paper This Palgrave Pivot imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
Contents
1 Introduction: Geometries of Liberation 1 Susan Gerofsky 2 Shaped by the Places We Reason? Contrasting the Rectilinearity of Western Educational Thought with Other Possibilities 9 Brent Davis 3 Ecofractal Poetics: Five Fractal Geometries for Creative, Sustainable, and Just Educational Design 29 Marna Hauk 4 Always an Abundance: Interstitial/Liminal Space, Time, and Resources that Are Invisible to the Grid 47 Susan Gerofsky 5 The Curricular Geometries of *SAMBA* Schools: Fractal Dimensions, Surface, Depth, and Recursion 67 Peter Appelbaum
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6 Of Grids and Gardens: School Gardening and the Unsettling Attachments of Teaching Beside the Grid 81 Julia Ostertag 7 Off the Grid 101 Edward Doolittle Index123
Notes on Contributors
Peter Appelbaum is Professor of Education at Arcadia University. He has a doctorate from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in Educational Foundations,
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