Digital Videos and Critical Mathematics Education: knowledge displacements in educational action

Vídeos Digitais e Educação Matemática Crítica: deslocamentos do saber na ação educativa

Abstract

This paper aims to critically examine how the mathematical discourse in the video “The Geometry of Bees” is expressed in terms of mathematics and multimodality. Based on an analysis of multimodal discourse, grounded in social semiotics, from the perspective of the construct ‘humans-with-media’ and critical mathematics education, we proceeded to analyze the narrative in question. The methodology included modal data collection and multimodal transcription. The video was selected for its relevance to the application of mathematical concepts and its critical approach to geopolitical and environmental issues. We conclude that the producers-with-media construct a discourse that encapsulates social contexts, physicality, and languages, and is constituted through the interaction of various levels of world knowledge and even technology, giving meaning to the video narrative, which serves as an agent of knowledge displacement in educational action.

Palavras-chave
Vídeos Digitais; Análise do Discurso Multimodal; Educação Matemática Crítica