Critical Introduction to Mathematics Education - Human Diversity and Equitable Instruction

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.

List of contents

1. What is mathematics? Answers from mathematicians, historians, philosophers, and anthropologists 2. Reform mathematics teaching: The student-centered approach 3. Why identity, human diversity, and intersectional identities matter to mathematics education 4. A white institutional space: Race and mathematics education 5. Social class hierarchies and mathematics education: To reproduce or interrupt? 6. Gender trouble: Rationalism vs. masculinity in mathematics education 7. LGBTQ+ work: Outing mathematics for heteronormativity and homophobia 8. Dissolving ability binaries in mathematics education: From special education law to disability studies 9. Language diversity as an asset: Emergent bilinguals in the mathematics classroom 10. Putting it all together: Intersectionality revisited, current mathematics education policy, and further avenues for exploration

About the author

Mark Wolfmeyer is an associate professor in the College of Education at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Mark Wolfmeyer, Wolfmeyer Mark
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.03.2023
• EAN: 9781032345185
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3234518-5
• No. of pages: 144
• Series: Critical Introductions in Education
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; EDUCATION / General, Mathematics, EDUCATION / Multicultural Education, Secondary Schools, Moral and social purpose of education, Teaching of a specific subject, Primary & middle schools, Multicultural education, Moral & social purpose of education, Primary and middle schools, Educational strategies and policy, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / Mathematics