The Challenges and Potentialities of Institutionalizing Ethnomathematics in Mathematics Teaching Degree Programs: what do the pedagogical projects of these programs tell us

Abstract

This work, which focuses on Ethnomathematics in Initial Teacher Training for Mathematics teachers, is part of a doctoral thesis entitled Ethnomathematics in the training of Mathematics teachers: challenges and potential and aims to analyze the challenges and potentialities related to the institutionalization of this perspective in Mathematics Education in training courses. To this end, public Mathematics Teaching degree programs in the State of Rio Grande do Sul were delimited, and 18 Pedagogical Projects of the Courses (PPC) from seven Higher Education Institutions (HEI) were analyzed. Using Content Analysis (CA) as the methodological support, from the perspective of Laurence Bardin, the profile of the graduate and the curricular components were analyzed, aiming to understand not only the presence or absence of Ethnomathematics in the courses but also whether the ethnomathematical proposals for the future teacher are considered in the training process. The results indicate that there are potentialities in the implementation of the Ethnomathematics Program in undergraduate courses but, at the same time, challenges emerge as barriers to be overcome so that the scope of the proposal can be effectively developed and the objectives achieved.

Teacher Education; Mathematics Education; Ethnomathematics