The
"Connecting Math to Our Lives" Project results from a long-standing
and continuing interest in using critical inquiry to relate
curriculum content to students' individual and collective experience
and to analyze broader social issues relevant to their lives.
Project coordinators work with teachers to identify and share
examples of activities which take students beyond the traditional
descriptive activities found so often in textbooks to deeper
levels of comprehension, critical inquiry and opportunities
to act on what they are learning:
* to
personal and interpretive activities in which students link
curriculum content to their individual and collective experience
* to
critical inquiry and analysis in which students engage in the
more abstract process of critically analyzing the issues or
problems that have been raised
* to
creative social action in which students discuss and explore
ways in which social realities might be transformed through
various forms of democratic participation and social justice.
These
phases are drawn from the educational theories of Paulo Freire,
Alma Flor Ada, and Jim Cummins, and help provide the theoretical
framework for "De Orilla a Orilla", I*EARN-ORILLAS, and
PSR*TEC co-sponsored projects.
(Please
see the graphic representation below.)
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