For an algorithmic-normative pan-turn in School Mathematics Education

Abstract

Not only the pandemic, but also the global environmental crisis can lead to the extinction of human life on the planet. The challenge presented to school mathematics education that has been practiced globally, since the advent of modern systems of public schooling, is to deconstruct itself as a “whig-colonizing” education. In this article, based on the algorithmic-normative image of mathematical activity suggested by the works of Alan Turing and Ludwig Wittgenstein, we will discuss a possible way of carrying out this deconstruction, as well as a possible way for this deconstructed mathematics education to come to participate in the invention of a global non-disciplinary school pan-education, what requires from school practices a focal displacement of fixed and sequenced disciplinary contents to problematize the effects and affections of the realization of algorithmic-normative cultural practices on different vital fields of human activity.