Math Education for America? - Policy Networks, Big Business, and Pedagogy Wars

"Math Education for America? analyzes math education policy through the social network of individuals and private and public organizations that influence it in the United States. The effort to standardize a national mathematics curriculum for public schools in the U.S. culminated in 2010 when over 40 states adopted the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics. Rather than looking at the text of specific policy documents, this book complements existing critical reviews of the national math education curriculum by employing a unique social network analysis. Breaking new ground in detailing and theorizing the politics of math education, Wolfmeyer argues that the private interests of this network are closely tied to a web of interrelated developments: human capital education policy, debates over traditional and reform pedagogy, the assumed content knowledge deficit of math teachers, and the proliferation of profit-driven educational businesses. By establishing the interconnectedness of these interests with the national math education curriculum, he shows how the purported goals of math education reform are aligned with the prevailing political agendas of this social network rather than the national interest"--

Product details

• Authors: Mark Wolfmeyer, Wolfmeyer Mark
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.12.2013
• EAN: 9780415713009
• ISBN: 978-0-415-71300-9
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; USA, EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General, JUVENILE NONFICTION / Mathematics / General, United States of America, USA, Educational strategies & policy, Teaching of a specific subject, Educational: Mathematics & numeracy, Educational: Mathematics and numeracy, Educational strategies and policy, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / General