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Afro-Caribbean women and resistance An exploration of decolonial feminist pedagogies in the Women\u27s Museum Costa Rica: An exploration of decolonial feminist pedagogies in the Women\u27s Museum Costa Rica
No full textAs a professor and founder of the Women\u27s Museum Costa Rica I explore in this article how exhibitions help us in our pedagogical mission of a new decolonial gender awareness. Specifically, I analyze a number of selected artworks in online exhibition titled Memories and resistances. Women, artists, Afro-America and Caribbean stories in terms of how they make visible and represent women of Afro-descendants as complex political subjects. My findings show that this exhibition operated very effectively as an instrument of feminist decoloniality, by addressing the matrix of gender and race oppression, recovering different stories of women and memories of historical resistances, and offering a more collective sense of identity and agency. By curating exhibitions like this, our women\u27s museum can play a crucial role in providing new anti-racist, anti-traditional and anti-patriarchal perspectives that educate current and younger generations about the histories and lives of women who have long been ignored.
 
Communicating Mathematically: English Language Learners in the Mathematics Classroom
Get PDFThis article explores the essential role of communication and language in learning mathematics. Implications for English language learners taught primarily by English-speaking teachers are highlighted. In this paper (and their related book), the authors advocate regular use of pedagogical strategies such as "help English learners talk-to-learn during mathematics lessons" and "provide mathematical and organizational representations.
Mathematics Education and Social Justice: A Conversation with Danny Martin
Get PDFDanny Martin is a professor of Education and Mathematics and University of Illinois Chicago. His groundbreaking scholarship on the mathematics socialization of African Americans has led to seminal pieces on the roles of race, identity, and mathematics education for Black children that critically inform current dialogues about mathematics education and social justice. His work inspires many scholars, teacher educators and teachers working to transform mathematical experiences of young people, especially those historically marginalized in schools. We have known each other for 20 years and have co-authored a book together. He is my friend and colleague, someone I continue to learn with and from in the fight for an equitable and justmathematics education for our nation’s youth. He sat down with me to discuss mathematics education from a lens of social justice. Our conversation expresses evolving views of the mathematics education landscape including why social justice in mathematics education is so important yet challenging; and, what solutions we can radically reimagine as we try to move forward to create the kind of just and humanizing mathematics education we want
Developing Sociopolitical Consciousness through Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun: An Interdisciplinary Project
Get PDFThis article describes an interdisciplinary project that combined the subject matters of mathematics and English/language arts while adapting the storyline of A Raisin in the Sun (Hansberry, 1984). The key teaching objectives, in this project, were to progress students toward mastery of linear and exponential functions, show them a connection between literacy and mathematics, and educate them on the struggles of Black Americans. We position the mathematics portion of the project within a fitting framework for social justice teaching, discuss its emergence and implementation, and offer teacher and student reflections for future replication and refinement
Supporting Prospective Teachers in Using Mathematics to Understand Our World
Get PDFWe, a teacher educator and two of my former students, discuss the role of meaningful real-world connections as a means to creating a more equitable and socially just mathematics curriculum. First, Felton-Koestler describes his use of real-world projects in courses for future teachers. Then Sutherland and Tracy describe their experiences with the projects and give examples of the real-world connections they made. Finally, we consider some of the themes across the prospective teachers’ work and future directions for implementing this form of teaching in teacher education courses
Empowering Minds: Harnessing AI for Dynamic Classroom Learning
No full textThe discussion of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) and its uses and purposes in the classroom has exponentially increased highlighting the need to verify what is considered ethically sound writing. As students become aware of and use GAI to enhance their learning, faculty will need to adapt and innovate their classrooms and teaching practices. This paper discusses the GAI experiences of faculty, provides examples of classroom incorporation of GAI, and cite the needs from institutions if departments wish to remain knowledgeable and relevant in the GAI space to effectively prepare students for a future dominated by Artificial Intelligence
Feminist storytelling in the museum : Uncovering pedagogies of critique, possibility, and agency
No full textHow are feminists resisting and disruptive normative, often millennia old patriarchal storytelling practices in museums around the world? This article shares my findings of the work of feminists in public art and history and women’s and gender museums and the different stories they tell in the interests of gender justice and change. Visiting exhibitions and perusing websites, I found a plethora of innovative practices of herstorying, animating, reframing, recentering, rescripting, gender bending and revisualizing that offered both a language of critique and a language of possibility. I argue that as feminists shatter the complacency of entrenched masculine narratives they are curating a new consciousness, memory and sense of agency. As practices of feminist adult education museum storytelling aims to transform experiences of oppression into critical insights and place women and others oppressed by gender norms into more significant roles as historical and contemporary knowers and socio-cultural actors
Dialogues in Social Justice Empowering Anaheim : Igniting Civic Engagement & Social Justice
No full textThis paper explores how an Asian American teacher’s course initiative and the Anaheim Union High School District’s (AUHSD) strategies in teaching and community involvement advance social justice and combat anti-Asian violence in Orange County, California. Utilizing systems theory and informal and incidental learning theory, this study examines the effectiveness of AUHSD’s efforts. Findings reveal that the teacher’s approach effectively addresses discrimination, while AUHSD’s innovative curriculum and partnerships promote inclusivity and equity. This research underscores education’s critical role in building informed, inclusive communities.
Keywords: ethnic studies, civic engagement, learning organizatio
A Reflection on my Work with A Reflection on my Work with Latino Parents and Mathematics
No full textThis article describes research from different parental engagement projects in mathematics. Through Latino/a parents’ voices, we learn about their beliefs and values about mathematics education and these findings can inform those who work with students or parents.