Speaker: Daniel Clark Orey, Ph.D.
Professor of Mathematics Education
Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto, Brazil
Title: From an Imprecise Precision: Reflections on the Connections Between Culture and Modelling
Abstract: In this talk, I will share my thoughts in relation to culture and modelling. This awareness gradually emerged over time, beginning while growing up on the West Coast of North America, and later working in Guatemala, then New Mexico, California, and Nepal, to now where I currently live in Brasil. In the mid 80´s, as a young master’s student in New Mexico, I participated in a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant, which allowed a group of researchers to travel throughout the Southwestern United States. As part of my master’s research, I used this model in Guatemala, and then with doctoral research in México. By using LOGO, we looked at first contacts with computers, this was when I began to see interactions between humans, culture, and mathematics. These elements became the foundations of the dialogical processes of ethnomodelling with researchers in Brasil, Ecuador, Colombia, the United States, Ghana, México, Costa Rica, Nepal, and Indonesia.
Biography: Daniel Clark Orey, Ph.D. is Professor Emeritus of Mathematics and Multicultural Education at California State University, Sacramento. He has taught and lived in Oregon, Brazil, Guatemala, Mexico, Nepal and the United States. He is a Fulbright Senior specialist with experiences at the Pontifical Catholic University of Campinas in Brazil (1998) and at Kathmandu University in Nepal (2007). He is currently professor of mathematics education in the Department of Mathematics Education and serves in the Post-Doctoral Academic Masters and Doctoral Program in Mathematics Education at the Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto, Brazil.
The faculty host of this speaker is Dr. Eva Thanheiser