ABSTRACT
In this chapter, I apply Munir Fasheh’s concept of occupation of our minds to mathematics education during the apartheid era in South Africa. As Black people’s lives in South Africa were occupied through the apartheid education system, so too was their occupation of knowledge about mathematics learning and teaching. As such, redress in mathematics education requires serious commitment to ending occupation of our minds. This chapter concludes with questions regarding whether current reforms in mathematics teaching are adequately addressing the problem of occupation of knowledge in South Africa, as well as with suggestions for how occupation of our minds can be eliminated.
