Les mathématiques adaptées aux facteurs (trans-multi)culturels : (re)créer des espaces de bienveillance

In this paper, I relive my experiences of (un)learning, (re)learning and (re)searching mathematics in multiple cultural contexts. I begin by recounting the moments of dilemma that many students encounter in various cultural contexts, which inspired me to weave the threads of (trans-multi)culturally responsive mathematics. I share this story through the narratives, poems and digital postcards that I created in my auto-ethnographical life writing of engaging in (re)learning of and with(in) mathematics. Underlying these efforts and actions is the hope that sharing these may help in creating spaces for inviting (trans-multi)culturally responsive mathematics in contemporary diversity-rich classrooms. Informed by critical and transformational multicultural education perspectives and the insights of key curriculum scholars—Aoki, Pinar, Schwab, Leggo and Noddings—a (trans-multi)culturally responsive mathematics is a calling for teachers to acknowledge mathematics as a human endeavour. It is an initiation to invite student’s lived experiences and multiple ways of knowing in mathematics classrooms with relational caring and loving kindness. Aiming to educate diverse students in a socially-just manner, a (trans-multi)culturally responsive mathematics urges teachers to embrace wholistic teaching that not only focuses on the mind and body, but also strives for educating the heart and spirit. Thus, it is an ethical, intellectual, political and relational inquiry, which critically engages students with mathematics to discover what knowledge is most worth within and beyond the boundaries of classroom(s) and thereby empowers them to co-create mathematics that is living.Dans cet article, je revis mes expériences relatives au fait de (dés)apprendre, de (ré)apprendre et de (re)chercher les mathématiques dans de multiples contextes culturels. Je commence par relater les moments de dilemmes que rencontrent de nombreux élèves dans des contextes culturels variés qui m’ont poussé à me pencher sur les mathématiques adaptées aux facteurs (trans-multi)culturels. Je partage cette histoire à travers les récits, les poèmes, les cartes postales numériques que j’ai créés dans le cadre de l’écriture ethnographique de ma vie en m’engageant dans la (ré)appropriation des mathématiques. Ces efforts et ces actions sont sous-tendus par l'espoir que mon partage puisse aider à créer des espaces pour inviter les mathématiques adaptées aux facteurs (trans-multi)culturels dans les salles de classe contemporaines riches en diversités. S’appuyant sur des perspectives de l’éducation multiculturelle critique et transformatrice et les idées des principaux spécialistes du curriculum—Aoki, Pinar, Schwab, Leggo and Noddings—les mathématiques adaptées aux pratiques (trans-multi)culturelles invitent les enseignants à reconnaître les mathématiques comme une activité humaine. Il s'agit d'une invitation à tenir compte des expériences vécues par les élèves et de leurs multiples modes de connaissance dans les classes de mathématiques, avec une attention relationnelle et de la bienveillance. Dans le but d'éduquer des élèves diversifiés d'une manière socialement juste, les mathématiques (trans-multi)culturelles incitent les enseignants à adopter un enseignement holistique qui ne se concentre pas seulement sur l'esprit et le corps, mais s'efforce également d'éduquer le cœur et l'esprit. Il s'agit donc d'une enquête éthique, intellectuelle, politique et relationnelle, qui engage de manière critique les élèves avec les mathématiques pour découvrir quelles connaissances ont le plus de valeur à l'intérieur et à l'extérieur des limites des salles de classes, et qui leur donne ainsi les moyens de co-créer des mathématiques vivantes

Transborder Data Flow Issues And Their Impact On Multinational Companies

Today, companies experiencing transborder data flow are faced with obstacles that limit the free flow of information. This prevents companies from taking full advantage of international markets. Some of these obstacles include connectivity problems, security issues, language problems, the price structure of communication services, trade barriers, and, most importantly, transborder data flow restrictions applied by different countries. Multinational companies can minimize the negative effects of these obstacles if they can adjust their organizational decision making structures and information systems architectures based on the obstacles they face, and encourage the standardization of systems networking

(Re)searching (Trans-Multi)Culturally Responsive Curricular Conversations

Haunted by the regurgitating moments of schooling experienced by myself and my students in multiple cultural contexts, in this paper, I attempt to initiate a provocative dialogue regarding the kinds of conversations we should have to bring “education” into today’s culturally diverse classrooms. By sharing the current dilemmas encountered by many students in contemporary schooling, specifically in science and mathematics classrooms, I argue for the creation and enactment of a (trans-multi)culturally responsive curriculum. Drawing on Aoki’s inspirited rhizomatic curriculum, Pinar’s currere as a complicated conversation, along with Schwab’s deliberated practice of engaging curricular commonplaces in a dialogue, I propose a (trans-multi)culturally responsive curricular framework as one way to invite teachers to engage deliberatively in a complicated conversation that could broaden their understandings of culturally responsive education in today’s classrooms

Global Organizations Empowered By The Internet-Intranet-Extranet Technologies: Planning And Strategic Implications

Information technology simultaneously drives and facilitates global business. The World Wide Web (WWW) represents a paradigm shift of comparable significance to that of the printing press due to its capability of broadcasting not only the written word (static information) but also entire software applications (dynamic information). The WWW surfaces a new level of power and effectiveness for the Internet-Intranet-Extranet (Net) enabled organization similar to the benefits brought aboutby the three-tier/hyper-tier structure in the client-server computing model. The Internet acts as a natural extension of the intranet and the extranet, since the underlying technologies (e.g., TCP/IP, HTML, HTTP, CGI, URL) are continuous with one another.This enables global access to applications such as data warehousing, on-line analytical processing (OLAP), data mining and data visualization, thus contributing to the productivity of millions of knowledge workers across the globe. This also enables organizations to allow access outside of their own employee base to customers, partners, suppliers, and investors

Discharge Curve Backoff Sleep Protocol for Energy Efficient Coverage in Wireless Sensor Networks

AbstractIn energy constrained wireless sensor networks, maximizing network coverage lifetime while ensuring optimized coverage is important. The challenge is to determine an appropriate duty cycle for the nodes while maintaining sufficient count of active nodes for optimal network coverage. Most of the existing work, for coverage optimization based on duty cycle, does not consider the residual energy of the active nodes. This can result in suboptimal wake-up of sleeping nodes. RBSP considers the residual energy but ignores the active nodes’ battery discharge rate. In this paper, we propose DCBSP (Discharge Curve Backoff Sleep Protocol), which considers the battery discharge curve of the active nodes to determine the duty cycle of the inactive nodes. Thus in DCBSP, inactive nodes wake-up close to death of the active nodes which leads to lesser energy consumption and increased network lifetime. NS-2 simulations show the energy consumption of DCBSP is lesser than that of PEAS by 39% and lesser by 25% and 15% as compared to RBSP and PECAS respectively. Further, the coverage ratio of DCBSP is higher than PEAS by 32% and higher by 17% and 6% as compared to RBSP, PECAS respectively. Hence, DCBSP is effective in ensuring higher coverage while extending the network lifetime