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This chapter presents the themes worked on in a distance learning course, conducted with cultural objects of traditional African peoples, aimed at the continuing education of elementary education teachers in Brazil. African creations are presented and analyzed, both from a mathematical point of view, and from the openness made possible to the culture of the other, highlighting approaches to ethnomathematics, mathematical patterns, values of beauty and community, as well as highlighting the foreseen possibilities to work phenomenologically on these issues with students. The intertwining of the ideas of fractal geometry and objects of African culture are presented in this text, as well as the understanding of education and educational attitudes that lead to the knowledge of the other.
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In Brazil, elementary school comprises 9 years; children start elementary school between the ages of six and seven.
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Here we refer to the Care of the Self as posed by Foucault (1985), for example.
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The constitution of idealities, understood in the realm of Husserls’ phenomenological philosophy is complex. It entails: the capacity for unlimited repetition of self-evidence, by the act of remembering, constituting an identity of the structure throughout the chain of repetitions, when the idealizing operation, which is consummated with the objectifying act, intervenes. However, even with this act, it is not yet actualized as presented in the Lebenswelt. In order to be so, Husserl points to the act of intropathy and language, which make it possible for the objectifying act to become ideally objective, and, as such, capable of being transmitted and resumed passively by consciousness or in the mode of active production when it is possible for consciousness to intentionally reactivate the original spiritual act.
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This teacher was also a student of the undergraduate mathematics teacher-training course at FURB, a public university located in Blumenau (SC), and chose African games as the theme of Practicum V, in 2018, whose advisor was Dr. Tânia Baier, one of the authors of this chapter.
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Baier, T., Bicudo, M.A.V. (2020). Mathematics in African Cultural Creations: Open Horizons to the World of Mathematics Education and the Formation of the Person. In: Viggiani Bicudo, M. (eds) Constitution and Production of Mathematics in the Cyberspace. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42242-4_9
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