This article seeks to shed light on the curriculum of the Arab College in Jerusalem established by the British Mandate Government in 1918. The book also documents how Palestinians resisted and rebelled against authoritarian conceptions of education in a way that requires a reflection on the role of education in freedom and social justice. I reflect on my interactions working with Palestinian students and teachers and analyze the social and cultural underpinnings of that dominant and dominating view of mathematics, as well as the way in which the different regimes of control over Palestine have influenced our views of learning, teaching and assessment. The book focuses on mathematics because of the reverence that mathematics enjoys among many Palestinians, who view it as objective and neutral, and those who study it as intelligent. That view is rooted in Palestinian sociopolitical history and has been reproduced and reinforced by colonial systems of authority and domination. In Palestine, the dominant view of education is that teaching is “giving” information, learning is “acquiring” that information, and assessment therefore requires evaluating how successfully the learner has acquired the information.

It weaves interviews with those who were born in the 1940’s and 1950’s, and were later taught and studied mathematics with reflections on current understandings of mathematics education in Palestine and the potential of education as a tool of resistance. Students contemplating Honours should take MATH 211, MATH 238, and MATH 277.This book explores the formation of the Palestinian discourse about learning and teaching, with a focus on the influence of colonial and specifically British rule over Palestine. Courses in mathematics and statistics at the 200-level other than those listed in this section are not acceptable as part of a major in mathematics.

Students contemplating Honours should choose MATH 276.Ĭhoose the remaining 21 credit units from the following, using the following rules:Ĭhoose at least 12 credit units that are at the 300-level or higher. CLAS 101, CLAS 103, CLAS 104, CLAS 105, CLAS 107 and CLAS 203 may not be used to fulfill the Humanities requirement.Ĭhoose 3 credit units from the following:.Any senior-level humanities course provided that the prerequisite is met.

Ethnography of mathematics