ERIC Number: ED602624
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2019
Pages: 166
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: 978-1-0857-0753-4
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Empowering Students through Mathematics: A Post-Qualitative Study
Mycyk, Mary E.
ProQuest LLC, Ed.D. Dissertation, Aurora University
This post-qualitative case study investigates the social, historical, and political contexts in which learning math is situated through the stories of seven eighth grade students identified as low-income, Latino/a, and on-track for college level mathematics. Working from a post-qualitative paradigm using Jackson and Mazzei's (2012) concept of thinking with theory, the participants stories were deconstructed and data were read through the lenses of the Bourdieuian framework of cultural capital, Freire's concept of conscientization, the situated perspective of math identity, the culturally relevant perspective, and the critical mathematics perspective. The transgressive voice of the students was sought to create new discourse on the complexities of the social and critical aspects of learning mathematics. Deconstructive implications from this inquiry open up the discussion surrounding local and national reform efforts, hegemonic ideologies embedded in United States educational experiences, issues of power and knowledge found in cultural capital, the implementation of critical pedagogy for conscientization, and the power held by stakeholders that influences math identity. This inquiry helps us better understand the need for educational stakeholders to recognize the non-static nature of the learning community and the always already becoming nature of the people that make up the learning community. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://bibliotheek.ehb.be:2222/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.]
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Low Income Students, Hispanic American Students, Grade 8, Mathematics Education, Culturally Relevant Education, Cultural Capital, Self Concept
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Publication Type: Dissertations/Theses - Doctoral Dissertations
Education Level: Junior High Schools; Middle Schools; Secondary Education; Elementary Education; Grade 8
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Language: English
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