ERIC Number: EJ1369222
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2022-Nov
Pages: 7
Abstractor: ERIC
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ISSN: ISSN-0025-5769
EISSN: EISSN-2330-0582
Access, Power, Identity, and Healing in Mathematics
Gartland, Sara; Wong, Shellee; Silverstein, Laurie
Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12, v115 n11 p815-821 Nov 2022
The purpose of this article is to show how instruction that supports both mathematical learning (ML) and social and emotional learning (SEL) creates opportunities for equity. In fall 2020, the first author observed the co-authors, Ms. Wong and Mrs. Silverstein, providing instruction that supports ML and SEL in their hybrid ninth-grade algebra 1 class. Such instruction promoted genuine and accessible mathematical discourse. In this article, the authors provide a definition of instruction that supports ML and SEL, a snapshot of such instruction in action, and explanations of how such instruction promotes equity through attention to access, power, identity, and healing. They do so to give other mathematics educators a concrete example of promoting equity as a process (Venet 2021) involving human- and content-oriented elements.
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Social Emotional Learning, Grade 9, Algebra, Teaching Methods, Social Justice, Power Structure, Access to Education, Equal Education, Self Concept, Interaction
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Grade 9; High Schools; Junior High Schools; Middle Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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