The sightless eyes of reason: Scientific objectivism and school geometry
Year: 2015
Type: article
Abstract: There is a gap between the aims of school geometry in terms of the teaching of spatial abilities to young children , and the dominance of a school geometry rooted in Euclid's axioms and abstractions. Such gap is not to be explained in terms of a " misimplementation " of the cur-ricular intentions. Rather, the gap evidences elements of the power effects of school geometry on children's subjectivities. We problematize both the truths circulating in school geometry discourses and the effects on children's subjectivities, by adopting cultural historical strategies to research the functioning of school geometry curriculum. We argue that school geometry fabricates the scientific minds of the future by educating students to see not with the eyes of their bodies, but with the eyes of reason and logic.
Source: HAL
Authors: Melissa Andrade-Molina, Paola Valero
Institution: Aalborg University
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2521678976