Ethnomathematics and post-qualitative inquiry: reconceptualization of a mathematics curriculum with Roma student.

Reconceptualization of the mathematics curriculum with Roma students adapts a methodologically alternative research model where the researcher explores the common areas of mathematical knowledge. This exploration reveals a rhizome which portrays the possibilities offered to the educational process when mathematics curriculum is oriented towards the culture and the historical present of the students. On the occasion of the birth of a child, a series of mathematical activities which are adapted to their historical present and acquire meaning and substance through everyday life is developed. The developed rhizome gives the opportunity to understand the essence of their daily life and to examine power relations and way of action of this specific cultural group through mathematics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]