{"id":1096,"date":"2020-09-01T14:26:54","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T14:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/din.today\/?p=1096"},"modified":"2020-09-01T14:26:54","modified_gmt":"2020-09-01T14:26:54","slug":"c-k-raju-and-decolonizing-mathematics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/din.today\/?p=1096","title":{"rendered":"C.K. Raju and Decolonizing mathematics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can you decolonize 1+1=2? Yes you can. Indian mathematician C.K. Raju has done path breaking work on decolonizing mathematics. Raju has produced numerous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ckraju.net\/#Books\">books<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ckraju.net\/cv\/papers.html\">articles<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ckraju.net\/cv\/6-ckr-videos.html\">videos<\/a> on this topics.<\/p>\n<p>He asks the question: <em>\u201c<\/em><em>Math and science are believed to be universal, so is there anything to decolonise in math and science education?\u201d<\/em> He answers: <em>\u201cIndeed there is. The wrong belief that math and science are universal but developed mainly in the West played a key role in colonisation.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>What is the main difference between Eurocentric mathematics and decolonial mathematics. Raju: <em>\u201cEmpirical proof is rejected by Western mathematics on the grounds that empirical proof is fallible. Our senses might mislead us. To use a classical example from Indian philosophy: I might mistake a rope for a snake or a snake for a rope.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Eurocentric mathematics has build a system based on axioms, while decolonial mathematics goes back to mathematics as was developed in other civilization and based on empirical evidence.<\/p>\n<p>Go to the website of raju to learn more about decolonial mathematics: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ckraju.net\/\">http:\/\/www.ckraju.net\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can you decolonize 1+1=2? Yes you can. Indian mathematician C.K. Raju has done path breaking work on decolonizing mathematics. Raju has produced numerous books, articles and videos on this topics. He asks the question: \u201cMath and science are believed to be universal, so is there anything to decolonise in math and science education?\u201d He answers: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/din.today\/?p=1096\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">C.K. Raju and Decolonizing mathematics<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2020_09","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/din.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/din.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/din.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/din.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/din.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/din.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1097,"href":"https:\/\/din.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096\/revisions\/1097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/din.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/din.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/din.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}