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> Nineteenth-century musical works were the product of an imperial society. The classical musical canon must be decolonised. I can't wait to decolonize mathema
by xroche 5y ago
> Nineteenth-century musical works were the product of an imperial society. The classical musical canon must be decolonised.
I can't wait to decolonize mathematics, physics, etc. and banish those arbitrary colonialists laws such as the law of gravitation, thermodynamics etc.
- Veen 5y agoIt's been underway for some time: https://theconversation.com/yes-mathematics-can-be-decolonised-heres-how-to-begin-65963 https://theconversation.com/yes-mathematics-can-be-decolonis...
- JoachimS 5y agoThat was imho a good article. As far as I understood, it did not argue that math should be thrown out and replaced because it was created, discovered by white men. It did state that students need to study math as a subject itself.
- tomp 5y agoI skimmed over it, and found it completely devoid of any reasonable content. The most actionable suggestion in the article was that students should use math to critically analyse society, which isn't really the subject of a mathematical education, but rather applied math / economics. Personally, I think a much better (personally and socially useful) field to apply / practice math is engineering, physics, or computing / data science. But in any case, that is a minor part of math education, IME.
- tigerlily 5y agoLord that article is giant cascading non sequitur.
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