Abstract:
In 2005. we have entered the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development. In this paper,
I argue that mathematics educators and mathematics education researchers can make a
contribution to educating for sustainable development. I make an important distinction between
education about sustainable development, and education for sustainable development; the latter is
the more important, but also the more difficult and challenging. The paper explores avenues
forward by considering mathematics as a resource for imagining and creating new realities, and by
proposing actor-network theory as an analytical tool for understanding the agency of mathematics
in creating new realities.
