2.2 How to bring the humanizing process in action?
Should it be interpersonal and interactional? Should it be formal, institutionalised, intentional and accountable?
Should it be concerned with mathematical concepts, meanings, processes, values or should it be suitable to the social
context. Above all, according to Bishop humanizing mathematics was focused on values with and insists of moving
away from a ‘transmission’ image of mathematics education (Bishop,1998). According to Bishop humanizing
mathematics is not an interpersonal process and therefore it is an interactive process between the teacher and the
taught. Hence the teacher’s task is to create a particular kind of social environment for the learner and it is the
learner’s task to construct ideas and modify them in interaction with that environment. The subject experts, the
educationists, and the curriculum framers should provide the supporting system.