“And That's Just how it Starts”: Teaching Mathematics and Developing Student Agency
By Eric Gutstein. Teachers College Record, 2007
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This article reports on a two-year qualitative, practitioner-research study of teaching and learning for social justice. The site was my middle-school mathematics classroom in a Chicago public school in a Latino/a community. A major pedagogical goal was to create conditions for students to develop agency, a sense of themselves as subjects in the world. My research suggests that students learned mathematics and began to develop sociopolitical awareness and see themselves as possible actors in society through using mathematics to understand social injustices. This research contributes to our understanding of how to create opportunities for students to develop agency in K-12 mathematics classrooms, and may also contribute to our knowledge of developing agency in any subject area.
Subfields: Education, Sociology and Political Science
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- The many colors of algebra: The impact of equity focused teaching upon student learning and engagement (2016, background): “This came about partly because students felt their ideas were used and valued, which is rare in typical math classes (see Boaler & Greeno, 2000; Gutstein, 2007) but may be critical for learning, particularly among adolescents.”
- Identity Education: A Conceptual Framework for Educational Researchers and Practitioners (2011, background): “…with students how their social identities enhance or constrain the development of their individual potentialities so that they might be able to resist society’s attempts to mold them in ways they deem debilitating or impose certain social identities while stripping them of others (Gutstein, 2007).”