El Currículo de las Matemáticas Escolares y el Gobierno del Sujeto Moderno

Thinking school mathematics with the Foucauldian notion of governmentality allows the exploration of the functioning of the mathematics curriculum as a government technology. The practices and discourses of mathematics education fabricate the rational, objective, universal subject, who becomes the Modern cosmopolitan citizen. A genealogical analysis addresses the insertion of school mathematics in the Spanish colonial project in Colombia and in its subsequent mutations in the consolidation of the nation’s state in the 20th century. The study shows how the Colombian mathematics curriculum aff...