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Jennifer Suh; Gretchen Maxwell; Kate Roscioli; Holly Tate; Padmanabhan Seshaiyer; Risto Marttinen – Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12, 2023
A powerful way to build students' mathematical power and agency is through Teaching Mathematics for Social Justice (TMfSJ), where students read and write the world with mathematics (Gutstein, 2005). Reading the world with mathematics uses mathematics to understand relations of power, resource inequities, and disparate opportunities between…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Mathematical Models, Social Justice, Athletics
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Kokka, Kari – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2020
Increasingly, teachers are using consciousness raising pedagogies such as culturally relevant, responsive, sustaining, and social justice pedagogies. However, little attention has been paid to teachers engaging in this work with students of privileged backgrounds (e.g., white, affluent students) and in mathematics. The present study addresses this…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Advantaged, Consciousness Raising, Critical Theory
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Simic-Muller, Ksenija – REDIMAT - Journal of Research in Mathematics Education, 2015
Preservice teachers often hold deficit views about the students they will teach and their communities. These limiting beliefs can result in lower expectations of and poor outcomes for the students, and need to be addressed in all areas of teacher education, including mathematics courses. The assignment described in this manuscript provides an…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, Mathematics
McHugh, Maighread L. – ProQuest LLC, 2015
The purpose of this qualitative multiple case study was to explore how five sixth grade female students navigated the process of project-based learning as they designed and implemented their own project centered on mathematics while using a social justice lens. The theoretical frameworks of Authentic Intellectual Work and Social Justice…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Grade 6, Females, Student Projects
Armlovich, Alex – Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, 2017
New York mayor Bill de Blasio entered office in January 2014, promising to "take dead aim at the Tale of Two Cities … [and] put an end to economic and social inequalities that threaten to unravel the city we love." The Manhattan Institute's "Poverty and Progress in New York" series tracks the effects of Mayor de Blasio's…
Descriptors: Poverty, Social Bias, Socioeconomic Status, Social Justice
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Reagan, Emilie Mitescu; Pedulla, Joseph J.; Jong, Cindy; Cannady, Mac; Cochran-Smith, Marilyn – Educational Research Quarterly, 2011
This study used the Teaching for Social Justice Observation Scale (TSJOS) of the Reformed Teaching Observation Protocol-Plus (RTOP+) to examine the extent to which twenty-two novice elementary teachers implemented practices related to teaching for social justice in their mathematics instruction. In addition, this study sought to examine the extent…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Social Action, Social Justice