The Western Mathematic and the Ontological Turn: Ethnomathematics and Cosmotechnics for the Pluriverse

Baker, Michael

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-97482-4_9

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“…Our friends from the philosophy of science can help us to think critically about the latest existential crises. Heidegger was worried that technology would strip us of our humanity (forgetting to "be"), Idhe was concerned with its role in our daily lives, and Stiegler focused on how technology could disrupt our cultural memories [42,43]. Hui [43] merges these ideas and sees technology as the conduit through which we understand our world (he calls this "cosmotechnics").…”

Section: Technological Revolutionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Enhancing Mixed Methods Research with your generative AI assistant – A Tutorial and Evaluation for Scholars

Combrinck

2024

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Scholars from all disciplines can benefit from learning how to use generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI or AI) for data analysis. The current article used real data to demonstrate the analysis and synthesis of mixed methods research (MMR) data with generative AI. I also explore how reliable and valid data outputs are and how to improve the use of generative AI for research. The demonstration data used emanated from a study done in South Africa, with a quantitative sample size of 969 first-year engineering students and, for the qualitative part, 14 second-year students. In the current article, I compare my original analysis to ChatGPT results. Generative AI is a mind tool that is ideal when utilised with human insight to check the cohesion, consistency, and accuracy of the data analysis. The current content is geared towards enhancing methodological application regardless of field or discipline and includes access to a prompt library and examples of using outputs. For the qualitative analysis, I found that ChatGPT could detect similar themes but missed some, and its write-up was shallower than our human version. The quantitative analysis was accurate for the descriptive statistics, but the researcher had to use best judgment to select the correct inferential analysis. A quantitative and qualitative analysis should be conducted separately in generative AI before asking the bot for help with mixed methods research. I give guidelines and a tutorial on how to use chatbots in an ethically responsible and scientifically sound manner for research in social and human sciences.

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Section: Technological Revolutionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Enhancing Mixed Methods Research with your generative AI assistant – A Tutorial and Evaluation for Scholars

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2024

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“…How has modern Western mathematics participated in the metaphysical framework responsible for producing instrumental knowledge of nature and enabling technical ways of making the world modern? These questions, and the philosophical discussion advanced by Baker (2022), invite us to distinguish between technic, understood as the poiesis that is integral to all cultures, and technology, understood as the instrumental rationalisation of technics designed to dominate and exploit nature via dominant modes of knowledge production linked to capitalist exploitation and colonial domination.…”

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“…If modernity's dualist ontology is not also disrupted, how then could SJM education, curriculum, pedagogy and research claim to interrogate coloniality and the structural, social and institutional problems resulting from Eurocentric world views that ontologically bifurcate culture from nature? Modern naturalism depends on the mathematics of nature and the geometry of space (Baker, 2022), which not only justifies the existence of one true reality independent of one's cultural participation in it, but also actively reproduces domination through technological innovations linked to capitalist exploitation and colonial dispossession. It is imperative to disrupt the naturalisation and reproduction of the type of knowledge created and maintained by Eurocentric rationalities that 'formulate universal principles of classification and judgment dictating what can be seen, felt, spoken, and thought -an operation of the coloniality of power, knowing, being, and life that pretends to universalize ideas in the form of a discourse that is no more than a subjectivation' presented as absolute truth (Flores and Kerscher Franco, 2022: 48).…”

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The sociopolitical turn in mathematics education and decolonial theory

Fúnez-Flores,

Ataide Pinheiro,

Ávila Mendoza

et al. 2024

London Review of Education

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This literature review examines how the theoretical perspectives aligned to the sociopolitical turn in mathematics inform social justice mathematics education. While existing literature has established the importance of social justice frameworks informed by critical theory, there has been limited exploration of critical race theory, poststructuralism and feminist theory, perspectives that offer a broader and more complex understanding of the social and political. After examining how these perspectives contribute to social justice mathematics, we explore the potential contributions of decolonial theory, particularly the way it unsettles accepted notions of social justice. By drawing and building on the sociopolitical turn in mathematics education, this article argues that decolonial thought can also assist in reimagining social justice mathematics education theoretically, methodologically and pedagogically. Ultimately, the article argues that there is no social justice without cognitive/epistemic and ontological justice, meaning that social justice loses ethical and political weight when modernity’s violent epistemic and ontological foundations are not questioned by social justice mathematics education research.

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“…Our friends from the philosophy of science can help us to think critically about the latest existential crises. Heidegger was worried that technology would strip us of our humanity (forgetting to "be"), Idhe was concerned with its role in our daily lives, and Stiegler focused on how technology could disrupt our cultural memories [49,50]. Hui [50] merges these ideas and sees technology as the conduit through which we understand our world (he calls this "cosmotechnics").…”

Section: Technological Revolutionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Tutorial for Integrating Generative AI in Mixed Methods Data Analysis

Combrinck

2024

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The current article used real data to demonstrate the analysis and synthesis of Mixed Methods Research (MMR) data with generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI). I explore how reliable and valid Gen AI data outputs are and how to improve their use. The current content is geared towards enhancing methodological application regardless of field or discipline and includes access to a prompt library and examples of using outputs. The demonstration data used emanated from a study done in South Africa, with a quantitative sample size of 969 first-year engineering students and, for the qualitative part, 14 second-year students. In the current article, I compare my original analysis to ChatGPT results. Generative AI as a mind tool is best used with human insight, and I found this to be especially true when coding qualitative data. ChatGPT produced generic codes if asked to do inductive coding, and the results improved when training the Gen AI on human examples, which led to moderate and significant correlations between human and machine coding. The quantitative analysis was accurate for the descriptive statistics, but the researcher had to use best judgment to select the correct inferential analysis. Quantitative and qualitative analysis should be conducted separately in generative AI before asking the Chatbot for help with mixed methods results. In the current paper, I give guidelines and a tutorial on how to use chatbots in an ethically responsible and scientifically sound manner for research in social and human sciences.

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The Western Mathematic and the Ontological Turn: Ethnomathematics and Cosmotechnics for the Pluriverse

Cited by 6 publications

References 127 publications

Enhancing Mixed Methods Research with your generative AI assistant – A Tutorial and Evaluation for Scholars

Enhancing Mixed Methods Research with your generative AI assistant – A Tutorial and Evaluation for Scholars

The sociopolitical turn in mathematics education and decolonial theory

A Tutorial for Integrating Generative AI in Mixed Methods Data Analysis

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