Analysis of Social Networks of Articles on Youth and Adult Education Published in the Last Twenty Years of the Mathematics Education Bulletin

Abstract

Reflection on Youth and Adult Education (YAE) in Mathematics Education is increasingly urgent as a struggle and claim for rights that have historically been denied to YEA students. Thus, this article aims to map the academic productions published in the Mathematics Education Bulletin (Bolema) in the last two decades (2000-2020) on YAE. With the support of the state of knowledge methodology, we built keywords and reference networks used by each cataloged article. Data were organized and entered into the basic NodeXL software for building networks. The analysis allowed us to verify, among other aspects, the relationships exerted by the keywords used in the 12 cataloged articles, in order to identify the theoretical aspects used by researchers and authors that exert greater relevance in the flow of information on the subject. Ethnomathematics and Mathematical Modeling are actions that stimulated research reflections and the authors who stood out are Freire and Skovsmose. Despite the small production of the topic in the analyzed periodical, it was possible to draw considerations on three categories that emerged from our analysis: classroom practices in the production of teaching materials in YAE and mathematics curriculum in YAE; which demonstrates the issues highlighted in the productions.