Notes about ficcion, life stories and research in mathematics education: regarding the ‘O impostor’, by Javier Cercas

Authors

  • Filipe Santos Fernandes Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/1982-5153.2018v11n3p165

Abstract

“Reality kills, fiction saves” – that is what the author affirms when proposing a book about Eric Marco’s life, a Spanish syndicalist who pretended to have fought in the Spanish Civil War and experienced the horrors of a Nazi concentration camp. Articulating the concerns of Javier Cercas about the writing of the book and our interests to relate fiction, life stories and research on Mathematics Education, we aim in this text to evidence the conflictive space of fiction as well as the life stories on research and how some of the epistemological movements in the Mathematical Education field allowed a reconfiguration of this own space. From this discussion, we aim to reflect upon the effects of a functional aesthetics to the research in Mathematical Education.

Author Biography

Filipe Santos Fernandes, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Doutor em Educação Matemática pela Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita Filho” (UNESP/Rio Claro). Professor da Faculdade de Educação da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. Membro do Grupo de Pesquisa História Oral e Educação Matemática (GHOEM) e do Núcleo de Estudos e Pesquisas em Educação do Campo (NEPCampo). Atua em pesquisas em História da Educação Matemática e em temáticas que relacionam a Educação Matemática e a Educação do Campo.

Published

2018-12-12

Issue

Section

Edição temática