“S/He Loved That Time as If It Was the Last” or Humanized Digital Mathematics (MaDHu)

Abstract

The goal of this article is to discuss a possible role for the use of Digital Technologies (DT) in educational settings (in mathematics): that of questioning. I intend to argue, for instance, that when I question whether Digital Technologies can induce anxiety, it opens up space to consider uses that embrace feelings and emotions in relation to Mathematics. When I question whether the university can play the role of an epistemic colonizer (Nego Bispo) concerning educational uses of Digital Technologies concerning schools, there is the possibility of opening spaces for counter-colonialist (Nego Bispo) thinking about continuous formative environments for the pedagogical use of DT that move towards epistemic justice (Miranda Fricker). The article will be a theoretical essay on problematizations like those indicated previously, based on the discussion of some research projects that are in progress within the scope of the Humanized Digital Mathematics (MaDHu, in Portuguese) project and will involve, in these problematizations, an exercise of questioning inspired by the song 'Construction (Construção, in Portuguese)' by Chico Buarque de Holanda.

Humanized; Humanization; Mathematics Education; Welcoming; Feeling