Thread by @JamaMusse

A few days back I held a @joinClubhouse conversation with an interesting gathering of #mathematics teachers and other #educators, and I did talk about #ethnomathematics.
The conversation generated a heated debate among them.
A thread #Culture #Maths #KnowledgeProduction

In the discussion, I also mentioned African Humanism as new enlightenment based on the endogenous & indigenous techniques and methods to generate knowledge in the #GlobalSouth.
Someone was so upset and felt attacked by this.
Others by my expression #decolonize the #decolonization

My point was and still remains not necessarily to antagonize the Western way of knowledge production but put aside and to mainstream our traditional techniques that fallen in disuse and take into formal education as another way of producing knowledge.

My sense of critical thinking for my students is about learning independently and developing one’s own opinion, supported by existing evidence and base of knowledge, but also articulating the opinion in a logical "manner" supported by proving with "methods".

This is an abstract idea that no one can claim ownership of, and therefore if that logical manner and methods are localized, and used the traditional ones and wisdom, it is there when it becomes ones' own way of critically thinking.

I linked #Ethnomathematics to the sacred rights of a child to learn maths from a curriculum that respects one's own dignity, proudness in their tradition; to a school that creates an environment that accommodates the "cultural & natural goods needed for intellectual enhancement"

What is your take on #ethnomathematics program to be introduced in every level of math education?

@adrillamah