The theoretical framework on humanist ethno-metaphorical mathematics learning model: An impactful insight in learning mathematics

Abstract

The educational revolution has posed an immense challenge to the world of education. It demands the development of a generation that can take on the challenges and changes bred by the ever-rapid revolution. It is thus inevitable that education must enable improvements of individual hard skills and soft skills that are required to keep up with such changes, including mathematical hard skills and soft skills. The problem is that not all mathematics learning approaches, particularly in the case of Indonesia, are capable of such improvements and of answering to such demands, challenges, and changes that are posed by the revolution. This research seeks to build a theoretical framework out of a systematic analysis based on various pieces of literature that are relevant and fitting to the theoretical framework under development. In this study, a theoretical framework on humanist ethno-metaphorical mathematics learning is developed as a theoretical foundation. This theory is designed for creating a humanist mathematics learning approach based on ethnomathematics and metaphorical thinking to develop students’ mathematical hard skills and soft skills and thus enable them to deal with the current and future problems and changes.