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Toward a reflexive mathematics education within local and global relations: thinking from critical scholarship on mathematics education within the sociopolitical, global citizenship education and decoloniality

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Pages 323-337 | Received 22 Nov 2020, Accepted 11 Oct 2021, Published online: 26 Jan 2022

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