Diderot e o sentido político da educação matemática

Authors

  • Maria Laura Magalhães Gomes Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais Author

Keywords:

Diderot, Mathematics, Mathematical Education, History of Pedagogical Ideas, Public Instruction

Abstract

The historiography of pedagogical ideas presents Denis Diderot (1713-1784) as a thinker who struggles for scientific education, in opposition to literary education, as the basis of public instruction. In the Plan of  an University, written by Diderot in an answer to the empress Catherine of Russia, mathematical knowledge plays a very important role. In this article, we discuss some of Diderot’s ideas about mathematical education and try to emphasize the connections between those ideas and the author’s political thinking.

 

Author Biography

  • Maria Laura Magalhães Gomes, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

    Doutora em Educação pela Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp). Professora

    do Departamento de Matemática e do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG)

Published

2012-02-14

Issue

Section

Original research

How to Cite

Diderot e o sentido político da educação matemática. (2012). Revista Brasileira De História Da Educação, 4(1 [7]), 75-108. https://www.periodicos.uem.br/ojs/index.php/rbhe/article/view/38671