The Sociopolitical Turn in Mathematics Education

2013 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rochelle Gutiérrez
Keyword(s):  
Mathematics Education ◽  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Research Community ◽  
Race Theory ◽  
The Past ◽  
Sociocultural Perspectives ◽  
History Of ◽  
Potential Benefits ◽  
Latcrit Theory

Over the past decade, the mathematics education research community has incorporated more sociocultural perspectives into its ways of understanding and examining teaching and learning. However, researchers who have a long history of addressing anti-racism and social justice issues in mathematics have moved beyond this sociocultural view to espouse sociopolitical concepts and theories, highlighting identity and power at play. This article highlights some promising conceptual tools from critical theory (including critical race theory/Latcrit theory) and post-structuralism and makes an argument for why taking the sociopolitical turn is important for both researchers and practitioners. Potential benefits and challenges of this turn are also discussed.

Beginnings

2000 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-4
Author(s):  
Judith T. Sowder
Keyword(s):  
Education Research ◽  
Mathematics Education ◽  
History Of Mathematics ◽  
Research Community ◽  
Half Century ◽  
The Past ◽  
Forthcoming Book ◽  
Past Half Century ◽  
History Of ◽  
Past Half

The beginning of a new year as well as the threshold of a new century and a new millennium seem appropriate times to take stock of where we have been and where we are going as a mathematics education research community. We have accomplished a great deal in the past half century of our existence, and I for one look forward to reading the forthcoming book on the history of mathematics education, edited by Jeremy Kilpatrick and George Stanic. That book will review for us our progress thus far, but what are the challenges we now face? This question will be addressed in various ways at various gatherings in the coming year, and new agendas will result from those discussions.

Thinking More Politically about the Challenges before Us: A Response to Romberg

1992 ◽  
Vol 23 (5) ◽  
pp. 438-440
Author(s):  
Michael W. Apple
Keyword(s):  
Mathematics Education ◽  
Educational Research ◽  
Research Policy ◽  
Good Deal ◽  
Research Community ◽  
Social Goals ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
The Past ◽  
Genetic Fallacy ◽  
History Of

I have a good deal of respect for Thomas Romberg. Over the past three decades, he has had a significant impact on how we think about educational research, policy, and practice. This is true not only in mathematics education but in the larger research community as well. His response to my analysis rightly reminds us of many of the educational and social goals and beliefs that stood behind the history of the Standards documents. These are valuable reminders, because all too often we forget the historical genesis of important arguments. We pull them out of the issues that generated them. thereby losing some of the power and insights they may possess. Yet this very sense of history points to a number of pressing concerns. I shall raise them in the context of what my friends in logic call the genetic fallacy.

Advancing Research Within Asian American Psychology Using Asian Critical Race Theory and an Asian Americanist Perspective

2021 ◽  
pp. 002216782110627
Author(s):  
Hyung Chol Yoo ◽  
Abigail K. Gabriel ◽  
Sumie Okazaki
Keyword(s):  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Asian Americans ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Current Theory ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
Race And Racism ◽  
Race Theory ◽  
American Psychology ◽  
History Of

Research within Asian American psychology continually grows to include a range of topics that expand on the heterogeneity, hybridity, and multiplicity of the Asian American psychological experience. Still, research focused on distinct racialization and psychological processes of Asians in America is limited. To advance scientific knowledge on the study of race and racism in the lives of Asian Americans, we draw on Asian critical race theory and an Asian Americanist perspective that emphasizes the unique history of oppression, resilience, and resistance among Asian Americans. First, we discuss the rationale and significance of applying Asian critical race theory to Asian American psychology. Second, we review the racialized history of Asians in America, including the dissemination of essentialist stereotypes (e.g., perpetual foreigner, model minority, and sexual deviants) and the political formation of an Asian American racial identity beginning in the late 1960s. We emphasize that this history is inextricably linked to how race and racism is understood and studied today in Asian American psychology. Finally, we discuss the implications of Asian critical race theory and an Asian Americanist perspective to research within Asian American psychology and conclude with suggestions for future research to advance current theory and methodology.

scholarly journals The Story of Drama Club: A Contemporary Counternarrative of a Transformative Culture of Teaching and Learning for Disenfranchised Black Youth in the School-to-Prison Pipeline

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 242
Author(s):  
Debra Mayes Pane
Keyword(s):  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Culturally Responsive ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Culturally Responsive Pedagogy ◽  
Black Youth ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Race Theory ◽  
School To Prison Pipeline ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Culture Of Teaching

<p>This study explored a contemporary counternarrative of Drama Club, a transformative culture of teaching and learning for disenfranchised Black youth who had been systematically funneled out of classrooms and into the school-to-prison pipeline.  Auto/biographical and auto/ethnographical data were collected and assembled as a metaphor of the teachers’ and students’ experiences in Drama Club and their understanding of the teaching and learning process and of themselves within it.  The collective story of Drama Club was analyzed through the lens of culturally responsive pedagogy theory and critical race theory in education.  Implications for future research and teacher education that set out to impact disenfranchised students are included.</p>

scholarly journals Rancang Bangun Game Dreamcatcher : War Of Surabaya Dengan Permodelan Scrum

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Boby Ferdianza
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Science Learning ◽  
Educational Game ◽  
Learning History ◽  
The Past ◽  
Teaching History ◽  
New Learning ◽  
History Of ◽  
Main Factors ◽  
Games Teaching

History belongs to a compulsory element in the teaching and learning at school. It can help students to know and more appreciate the past events. The number of history materials taught at school sometimes causes difficulty for students to learn. The lack of facilities and learning media which can attract student’s interest becomes the main factors of student’s difficulty in learning Social Science. Learning medium is very vital to determine what materials students can learn. One of solutions to solve difficulty in learning history is by creating new learning medium in the form of educational game as it can arouse student’s ability in thinking. One of the games teaching history particularly the history of Surabaya is Dreamcatcher: War of Surabaya. This game was designed based on historical events in Surabaya composed in an attractive story. It is completed with quiz to improve student’s memory. Game “Dreamcatcher: War of Surabaya” can be played with android platform and it is considered successful in teaching the history of Surabaya as it could improve students’ abilities on Surabaya history by 113.7% based on the results of pre-and post-tests.

Investigating Young Children’s Conceptualizations of Disability and Race: An Intersectional, Multiplane Critique

2021 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-104
Author(s):  
Margaret R. Beneke
Keyword(s):  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Large Data ◽  
Data Generation ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
Race Theory ◽  
Sociocultural Perspectives

Education researchers have extensively documented young children’s capacity to exhibit “bias” in relation to disability or race. By and large, data generation has focused on children’s awareness and attitudes about disability or race, rather than how interactions and structures construct and reinforce them. Bridging disability critical race theory (DisCrit) and sociocultural perspectives, this essay proposes the need for intersectional, multiplane qualitative data generation in studying young children’s disability and race conceptualizations to account for the ways intersecting, oppressive ideologies are perpetuated in young children’s worlds. In this essay, I briefly describe and critique extant data generation practices, concluding with possibilities for future investigations.

Looking Back at History of Madness

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynne Huffer
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
Race Theory ◽  
French Philosophy ◽  
History Of ◽  
Anglophone World ◽  
Looking Back

This essay offers an overview of History of Madness, including its place in Foucault's oeuvre, its publication and translation history. Huffer focuses especially on the significance of History of Madness as an under-read text whose philosophical and historical implications have not yet been adequately explored. She argues that a careful reading of History of Madness on its own terms offers resources for moving beyond some of the impasses that characterize not only twentieth-century French philosophy, but also many of the fields in the Anglophone world—especially feminist, queer, and critical race theory—that arose in the wake of a debate about madness.

scholarly journals Feminist Historiography and Uses of the Past

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 260-283
Author(s):  
Blossom Stefaniw
Keyword(s):  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Early Christianity ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
Race Theory ◽  
High Stakes ◽  
Representation Of Women ◽  
The Past ◽  
Counter Narrative ◽  
Feminist Historiography

Two recently-published works involved in the representation of women in the Christian past show two contemporary but divergent historiographic modes. The following essay examines each study within a larger frame of inquiry as to how patriarchy continues to shape both the institutional and embodied orders within which feminist historiography of early Christianity and Late Antiquity takes place. Using Critical Race Theory as the best available perspective from which to engage with systems of oppression, I articulate certain revisions which should be made to current efforts towards equality and consider what it would mean to write feminist historiography as counter-narrative or counter-storytelling without that becoming a decorative or extra-curricular practice in the academy. When feminist historiography is treated simultaneously in institutional, embodied, and epistemic terms it becomes evident that the way we think about women is part of a high-stakes conflict around the use of the past.

Science and Medicine

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tita Chico
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Philosophy Of Science ◽  
History Of Science ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
Race Theory ◽  
History Of

Abstract Abstract The titles reviewed in this chapter concern science and medicine studies. They represent work drawn from a variety of contexts and disciplinary perspectives, including science and technology, the history of science, literary studies, critical race theory, public health, the philosophy of science, law, ethnography, anthropology, architecture, and geology. The chapter has five sections: 1. Histories and Historicity; 2. Epistemology and Dissemination; 3. Institutions and Praxis; 4. Bodies and Subjectivities; and 5. Conversations (Journals).

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