ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a brief overview and comparison of the groups and their ideologies. Many continue to press the utilitarian aims of mathematics teaching and link them with the impact of technology, such as H. Pollak, head of research at Bell Laboratories, and a long-time proponent of these views. The primary elements imbue all the aspects of mathematics education within an ideological cluster, illustrating a central thesis of the book, that ideologies have a powerful, almost determining impact on mathematical pedagogy. The chapter establishes that Dualistic absolutism describes the ideology of New Right in Britain, and that this group represents the modern industrial trainers. Dualistic absolutism characterizes the views of the New Right concerning knowledge, moral values and social relations. The key representative of New Right thinking is the British Prime Minister of the 1980s, Margaret Thatcher, and a case study of her ideology follows.
