Abstract

CASTRO, Raimundo Santos de. RESEARCH OF THE ETHNOGRAPHIC TYPE: a proposal of a methodological approach of research in Mathematical Education. Rev. Exitus [online]. 2019, vol.9, n.3, pp.252-279.  Epub Apr 17, 2020. ISSN 2237-9460.  https://doi.org/10.24065/2237-9460.2019v9n3id935.

This article is derived from the methodological reflections of doctoral research developed at the Federal University of São Carlos - UFSCar, entitled Mathematical Language Mathematics of the Remaining Community of Quilombos of Agrovila de Espera, Municipality of Alcântara, Maranhão. It aims to discuss a methodological proposal for research in Mathematics Education: ethnographic research. This type of research design was adopted in the study discussed in this paper, which aimed to describe and characterize the mathematical practices, understood as games of mathematical languages, of individuals members of the community. The results of the analyzes carried out in the study in question, indicate that ethnographic research can contribute to the reflection on a set of sociocultural elements, among them mathematical practices, favoring the descriptions, comparisons and interpretations of meanings attributed to such practices by members of the community. In this way, studies in Mathematics Education, especially those that seek to enter a particularity, without, however, being confused with a supposed "universality", by the investigative nature of this type of research and by the scenario in which it is developed, can by through ethnographic research, provide a systematic reflection on the phenomenon under study and on who is the researcher in the research itself. It should also be said that this type of research does not seek to promote interventions, but rather to know and understand the daily arrangements and rearrangements of the study community, discussing their reality and favoring the understanding of some of the meanings and meanings produced in its interior, in particular, in what refers to its social practices that, in some way, involve aspects related to Mathematics Education.

Keywords : Research; Ethnography; Mathematical Education.

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