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Mathematics, the way it is practiced in school systems today, seems destined to disappear, a casualty of rapidly changing patterns of daily life. Already a new educational mood reflects the impact of new technologies and the resulting changes in family structure. This new mood was clearly evident at ICME IV.
In the most recent upheaval [May, 1968], the intellectual discovered that the masses no longer need him to gain knowledge: they know perfectly well, without illusion; they know far better than he and they are certainly capable of expressing themselves.
-- Michel Foucault, 1972
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D’Ambrosio, U. (1981). Uniting Reality and Action: A Holistic Approach to Mathematics Education. In: Steen, L.A., Albers, D.J. (eds) Teaching Teachers, Teaching Students. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0427-0_7
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