Background
Leone Minna Burton was born on September 14, 1936 in Sydney, Australia.
Leone Minna Burton was born on September 14, 1936 in Sydney, Australia.
Leone Minna Burton attended the University of London studying education with a focus on teaching mathematics. She began teaching at the secondary level but disliked the educational structure and methods of the day and moved to teaching at the primary level to have a greater opportunity to change teaching structure. She received a postgraduate certificate in education in 1966 and an academic diploma in education in 1968, both from the University of London.
In 1967 she obtained a post as a mathematical education specialist at Battersea College of, which is dedicated to teacher preparation.
She received her Philosophy Doctor from the Institute of in 1980.
Leone Minna Burton's research has included what is now termed the field of ethnomathematics which examines how mathematics is related to the culture in which it is developed, She has been visiting professor at institutions in Asia. Foreign 1984-1988 she was international convenor for the International Organization of Women and Mathematics She founded the monograph series International Perspective on Mathematics with the Greenwood Publishing group in 2001 which published three monographs between 2002-2006. This monograph series was subsequently renamed International Perspectives on Mathematics: Cognition, Equity and Society in honor of her pioneering work on equity and gender issues in mathematics education, edited by Bharath Sriraman and Lyn English, and published by Information Age Publishing.
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