La enseñanza matemática en los tiempos de Manuvadam y la privatización masiva

(PLENARIA 3 MES12 BRAZIL)

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https://doi.org/10.34024/prometeica.2024.31.19580

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mathematics education, caste, reservation policy, privatization of education, ethnomathematics, manusmriti, vedic mathematics

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Mathematics has, not only a long history in India like in any other ancient civilization, but it also carries a very high value in the present-day India, basically because of its importance in engineering education. India has made some important contributions to mathematics in the last 150 years. Yet, such a description hides the fact that ‘India’ here refers to a tiny minority of Hindu dominant caste middle-class men (and a couple of women from the same socio-cultural and economic background).  Though precolonial India had indigenous traditions of education, the caste and gender to which one belonged determined what kind of education one could get. It is only during the colonial rule that access to education was made independent of one’s caste and it is only as late as 2009 that India made the right to education a fundamental right, making free and compulsory education available for all up to the age of fourteen.

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  • Jayasree Subramanian, SRM University AP

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2024-11-29

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Vol. 31 (2024): Prometeica - v 31 (11/2024 - 02/2025)

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Subramanian, J. (2024). La enseñanza matemática en los tiempos de Manuvadam y la privatización masiva: (PLENARIA 3 MES12 BRAZIL). Prometeica - Revista De Filosofía Y Ciencias, 31, 449-467. https://doi.org/10.34024/prometeica.2024.31.19580
Recibido 2024-10-07
Aceptado 2024-11-26
Publicado 2024-11-29