The second edition of Mark Wolfmeyer’s award-winning primer offers future and current math teachers an introduction to the connections that exist between mathematics and a critical orientation to education, one that accounts for race, social class, gender, sexuality, language diversity, and ability.
Expanded and updated from the first edition, this book demonstrates how elements of human diversity and intersectionality have real effects in the mathematics classroom, and prepares teachers with a more critical math education that increases accessibility and equity for all students. By refocusing math learning toward the goals of democracy and social and environmental crises, the book also introduces readers to broader contemporary school policy and reform debates and struggles, especially in light of Covid-19 and the ongoing struggle for racial equity.
Featuring concrete strategies and examples in both formal and informal educational settings, as well as discussion questions for teachers and students, text boxes with examples of critical education in practice, a glossary, and suggestions for further reading, Mark Wolfmeyer shows how critical mathematics education can be put into practice, relevant for undergraduate and graduate students in education, current teachers, and teacher educators.
Author(s): Mark Wolfmeyer
Series: Critical Introductions in Education
Edition: 2
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 155
City: New York
Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: What is mathematics?: Answers from mathematicians, historians, philosophers, and anthropologists
An introduction to mathematical behaviors and pure and applied mathematics
What does the philosophy of math tell us?
What does the history of math tell us?
Ethnomathematics: Thoughtfully considering an anthropology of mathematical knowledge
Further reading
Chapter 2: Reform mathematics teaching: The student-centered approach
Reform mathematics teaching: Pedagogical content knowledge and student-centered learning
Critically planning mathematics lessons
Further reading
Chapter 3: Why identity, human diversity, and intersectional identities matter to mathematics education
Key concepts in diversity
Patterns in data reveal mathematics education’s opportunity gaps
Identity and diversity in mathematics education research
Further reading
Chapter 4: A white institutional space: Race and mathematics education
White supremacy and the social construction of race
Race and education: Critical race theory and culturally relevant and sustaining pedagogies
What is white mathematics education and how to interrupt it
Further reading
Chapter 5: Social class hierarchies and mathematics education: To reproduce or interrupt?
Critically understanding capitalism and social class hierarchies
Class reproduction, schools, and critical pedagogy
Social class and mathematics education
Further reading
Chapter 6: Gender trouble: Rationalism vs. masculinity in mathematics education
Gender and the history of feminism
Gender and education
Gender and mathematics education
Further reading
Chapter 7: LGBTQ+ work: Outing mathematics for heteronormativity and homophobia
Theories and concepts on sexual identity
LGBTQ+ students in public education
LGBTQ+ students in mathematics and STEM classrooms
Further reading
Chapter 8: Dissolving ability binaries in mathematics education: From special education law to disability studies
Rethinking special education with disability studies and DisCrit
Disability studies in schools: Universal design in learning and three waves of inclusion
Mathematics classrooms for students with disabilities
Further reading
Chapter 9: Language diversity as an asset: Emergent bilinguals in the mathematics classroom
Diversities of emergent bilinguals
Essential concepts for emergent bilingual education: translanguaging and raciolinguistic ideologies
Emergent bilinguals in the mathematics classroom
Further reading
Chapter 10: Putting it all together: Intersectionality revisited, current mathematics education policy, and further avenues for exploration
Common themes for diversity in mathematics education: Emphasizing intersectionality, multiplicity, language practices, and high-level content
History and politics of mathematics education
Searching for allies: Further avenues for exploring critical work in mathematics education
Further reading
Index
