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Teaching Mathematics For Social Justice Conversations With Educators Pdf

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Issues of global and local importance such as climate change and homelessness require critical perspectives across multiple disciplines including science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Our paper brings critical mathematics education and social justice alongside STEM education to explore experiences of learning to teach. We focus specifically on learning to teach through creating mathematics problems in/for STEM and social justice. As a collaborative research group we are from five countries with varied cultural backgrounds, teaching experiences, and academic pathways. Dialogue as method is used to examine experiences of creating problems through which students can interpret and transform the world. Data collected included 46 h of audio-recorded dialogue meetings, 26 developed problems, and 7 interviews with 12 students. Results indicate creating mathematics problems in/for STEM involved navigating between mathematics, social justice, and STEM across all education levels and is supported with critical dialogue across cultural perspectives, diverse experiences, and expertise. Challenges lived include questioning the content of mathematics and STEM, deepening our own expertise to draw upon local and global problem contexts, and interrogating who benefits from such problems. Our study highlights the need for continued collaborative dialogue that not only gathers educators across disciplines but also includes students as co-creators of mathematics problems that could change their relationship with the world.

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  1. Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia, 2125 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4, Canada

    Cynthia Nicol, Kwesi Yaro, Arthur Chen & Emmanuel Amoah

  2. Deakin University, Melbourne Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, VIC, 3125, Australia

    Leicha A. Bragg

  3. Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of the Fraser Valley, Building G, 1st Floor, Room G161, Abbotsford, BC, V2S 7M8, Canada

    Vanessa Radzimski

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Nicol, C., Bragg, L.A., Radzimski, V. et al. Learning to teach the M in/for STEM for social justice. ZDM Mathematics Education 51, 1005–1016 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11858-019-01065-5

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  • Critical mathematics education
  • Social justice mathematics education
  • Social justice pedagogy
  • STEM
  • Twenty-first century skills
  • Mathematics education

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