“The relationship between humans, mathematics, and the planet has been
one steeped too long in domination and destruction,” the talk summary
says. “What are appropriate responses to reverse such a relationship?”
We can already guess University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
professor Rochelle Gutierrez’s answer, from reviewing her published
writings and comments. Her plans for “an insurgency by the people” to
subvert public institutions and American self-rule through
“ethnomathematics” will knock your eyebrows off your face. Let’s take a
look.
…Gutierrez goes on to positively cite instances going back to the 1960s
of taxpayer-paid teachers in public institutions using their public
positions to deliberately and deceptively disregard the will of the
people as expressed through their elected representatives and civic
institutions. She presents as examples of “revolution” Mexican-American
studies teachers continuing to teach these Marxist, anti-American classes in public schools after state legislators banned the course.
…It is beyond time for all Americans to understand that, as Gutierrez
says, the people running U.S. public education at all levels are at the
very least influenced by the overt desire to overturn American-style
governance and institutions. She’s not even hinting that here, she’s
straight up saying it, and saying that academics as a whole agree.
Prof: Math Education Needs To Downplay ‘Objects, Truth, And Knowledge’
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