The plenary sessions
The plenary sessions are listed below by chronological
order. Some presentations can be downloaded.
A
two way process for developing culturally based math: examples from math in a
cultural context.
Open file: 
Willy Alangui (The Philippines,
chair)
Dora Andrew & Evelyn Yanez
(USA, Alaska)
Salinieta Bakalevu (Fiji). Open file: 
Colleen McMurchy-Pilkington (New
Zealand)
Joel Martim (Brazil). Open file:
Mogege Mosimege (South Africa) Open file:
Hariata Adams and Whanau, Ngati
Maniapoto (New Zealand): Raranga Harakeke (Flax Weaving).
Ubiratan D'Ambrosio (Brazil,
chair): The Work of Claudia Zaslavsky.
Open file:
Kay Owens (Australia): International
contacts in Ethnomathematics.
Open file: 
Open paper:
Lawrence Shirley (USA): Claudia Zaslavsky and my work.
Open file:
6. Gelsa Knijnik (Brazil): Ethnomathematics and the Brazilian landless movement.
Open file:
About the keynote speakers
Plenary 1, 2 and 3
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Ubiratan D'Ambrosio
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Gelsa Knijnik |
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Dora Andrew Dora
Andrew-Ihrke is a well respected educator, teacher, and former bilingual
coordinator for the Dillingham City Schools. She has been recognized many times
for her excellence in teaching. Most notably, she received the Milken award for
teaching in 1990. Now she is a consultant for Math in a Cultural Context,
University of Alaska Fairbanks. Jerry Lipka Evelyn Yanez |
Indigenous Knowledge Panel
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Willy Alangui |
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Mogege Mosimege |
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Salanieta Bakalevu
Dr Salanieta Bakalevu is a Fijian educator and presently lecturer in mathematics education at the University of the South Pacific (USP), Fiji. Obtained my undergraduate degree and teaching qualification from the University of the South Pacific, and Ph.D (Mathematics Education) at the University of Waikato. Taught in secondary schools in Fiji for several years. Has been Curriculum officer at the Curriculum Development Unit, instructional designer at USP's Distance & Flexible Learning Centre, and Head of the Learning Centre at the Fiji Institute of Technology. |
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Collen McMurchy-Pilkington |
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Joel
Martim
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Maria do Carmo Domite |
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Kay Owens |
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Lawrence Shirley
 Lawrence Shirley is a Prof. of Mathematics and
Associate Dean of the Graduate College of Towson University in Maryland USA. He
has a special interest in the history of mathematics and ethnomathematics.
After Peace Corps service as a mathematics teacher in Sierra Leone, he taught
in Nigeria for fifteen years and guided several student projects in the
mathematics of Nigerian culture.
He is the past-president of the North American Study Group on
Ethnomathematics. |
Hariata Adams & Whanau
Ngati Maniapoto
Pacifika Workshop – Lalava
Filipe Tohi
Filipe Tohi was born in Ngeleia in the Kingdom of
Tonga in 1959. As a young
man he emigrated to New Zealand and trained himself to be an artist, eventually
teaching carving and drawing in Taranaki. Seeking to incorporate his
cultural roots in his artistic practice, Tohi returned to Tonga to learn about
the ancient art of sennit lashing, called Lalava. Since then he has
become one of New Zealand's top contemporary artists, gathering acclaim for his
ability to apply the fundamentals of Tongan culture to minimalist sculpture.
Professor Ubiratan D'Ambrosio is Emeritus Professor of
Mathematics at the State University of Campinas UNICAMP. Currently, Professor
of Maths Education and History of Science in the Graduate Programmess of the
Pontificial Catholic University of São Paulo. Also, an invited professor and
graduate advisor at the Institute of Geosciences and Exacts Sciences of the
State University of São Paulo at Rio Claro/UNESP, and of the Faculty of
Education of the University of São Paulo/USP.
Gelsa Knijnik is professor of the Graduate
Program on Education of the Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, Brazil. In
the last 15 years she has been working with the Brazilian Landless Movement.
Her studies in the field of Ethnomathematics are based on this work, which
provides her the possibility of establishing a closer connection between her
academic scholarship and her political commitment with the construction of a
more just world.
Willy Alangui
Mogege has been working in the
Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS) Unit of the National Department of Science
and Technology in Pretoria, South Africa. He recently joined the Overseas
Bilateral Cooperation Unit of the Department. He has worked at the Council for
Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) where he managed the IKS Unit and the
University of Limpopo (Turfloop Campus) as Mathematics and Science Education
Lecturer. He holds a PhD in Mathematics Education (Ethnomathematics) from the
University of the Western Cape.
Colleen's masters
thesis examined Mäori women's mathematical thinking in Marae kitchen. Her
doctoral research analysed the policy development process of pangarau the Mäori
medium national mathematics curriculum. Colleen works with Mäori primary
teacher trainees and at post graduate level.
Joel Martim is an Indigenous female leader's
son: the Guarani leader Jandira Augusto Martim, from the indigenous village
Tekoá Ytú. He has professional/cultural functions involving spreading the
Guarani and other indigenous cultures, and also as an adult education teacher.
He is interested in school education in the indigenous communities
Maria do Carmo Domite
works in the Faculty of Education, University of São Paulo, where she has had
long term interests in ethnomathematics and problem posing. She has been
leading a project in mathematics education development with a group of
indigenous teachers. She is also known for chairing an interview between
Ubiratan D'Ambrosio and Paulo Freire.
Kay Owens worked in Papua New Guinea for 15 years where she
became interested in ethnomathematics in the mid 1970s. She has continued
working with PNG colleagues on ethnomathematics, most recently through the Glen
Lean Ethnomathematics Centre at the University of Goroka. Kay lectures at
Charles Sturt University, Dubbo NSW where there is a large Indigenous
population.