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Mathematics curriculum discourses on democracy: Critical thinking in the age of digital traces
Malmö University, Faculty of Education and Society (LS), Department of Natural Science, Mathematics and Society (NMS).ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8534-6320
Malmö University, Faculty of Education and Society (LS), Department of Natural Science, Mathematics and Society (NMS).ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5671-6428
Malmö University, Faculty of Education and Society (LS), Department of Natural Science, Mathematics and Society (NMS).ORCID iD: 0000-0002-4429-988X
2022 (English)In: Proceeding of the twelfth Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education, 2022Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

The use of people’s online digital traces has given rise to concerns for democracy. The digital traces may affect the individual’s life in unexpected and negative ways. Such traces may also be of importance for understanding the spread of disinformation and the like. This paper reports on a Foucault inspired discourse analysis of the Swedish upper secondary mathematics curriculum. Two discourses are construed in the intersection of critical thinking, democracy, and this new technology. Skovsmose’s concept of mathemacy is used to identify what is critical knowledge and what is not. The first construed discourse is, “With knowledge in formal mathematics, critical thinking on democracy will follow.” The second is, “Rather a personal career than a critical citizenship.” Neither of the discourses promotes a need for mathematics education to change due to new technology with regards to critical thinking.

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2022.
Keywords [en]
Critical mathematics education, digital traces, democracy, discourse, curriculum
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Didactics
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Mathematics education
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URN: urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-56686ISBN: 9791221025378 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mau-56686DiVA, id: diva2:1719148
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Twelfth Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education (CERME12), Feb 2022, Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Available from: 2022-12-14 Created: 2022-12-14 Last updated: 2026-02-19Bibliographically approved
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1. (Im)possibility of Critical AI Literacy in Mathematics Education
Open this publication in new window or tab >>(Im)possibility of Critical AI Literacy in Mathematics Education
2026 (English)Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
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The thesis examines how critical AI literacy can come to be in mathematics education. This is explored in relation to steering documents, pre-service teacher education, and classroom context. The results indicate that mathematics education with critical and ethical perspectives on AI technology is didactically possible, in the sense that teacher education and mathematics lessons can be shaped around such goals. However, the results also indicate that the traditions of mathematics education and expectations about what mathematics and mathematics education are and should be, are characterized by notions that contrast with such learning about AI technology.

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Malmö: Malmö University Press, 2026. p. 179
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Malmö Studies in Educational Sciences, ISSN 1651-4513 ; 2026: 115
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urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-82740 (URN)10.24834/isbn.9789178777518 (DOI)978-91-7877-750-1 (ISBN)978-91-7877-751-8 (ISBN)
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2026-03-27, D138, Orkanen, Nordenskiöldsgatan 10, Malmö, 13:15 (English)
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Available from: 2026-02-19 Created: 2026-02-19 Last updated: 2026-03-06Bibliographically approved

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