Diffracting Experiences in South Africa Through a Critical Posthumanist Perspective for a Decolonial Investigative Movement

Abstract

This article aims to analyze and share snapshots of the formative experiences of two researchers in Mathematics Education during their postdoctoral studies in the School of Education at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Through a diffractive writing approach, drawing from images and experiences in South Africa, we articulate a critical posthumanist perspective on the ways of operating these mathematics educators. Based on field notebooks, focus groups, and interviews (which will not be specifically addressed in this text), this paper connects experiences in a teacher education course, an international project involving basic education schools, students, and communities, as well as in the streets and in working with/in a research group, with the aim of affirming possibilities for a Mathematics Education that challenges the binary organization of a world that demands to be read through an intersectional lens.

Critical posthumanism; Education (mathematics; Diffractive writing and pedagogy; Formative processes