Culturally Specific Pedagogy in the Mathematics Classroom
Abstract
Advocating for the use of culturally specific pedagogy to enhance the mathematics instruction of diverse students, this revised second edition offers a wide variety of conceptual and curricular resources for teaching mathematics in a way that combats and confronts the forms of oppression that students face today. Addressing stratification based on race, class, and gender, Leonard offers lesson templates that teachers can use with ethnically and culturally diverse students and makes the link between research and practice. Connecting cutting-edge and emerging technologies to culturally specific pedagogy, the second edition features new chapters on mathematics and social justice, robotics, and spatial visualization. Applying a more expansive focus, the new edition discusses current movements such as Black Lives Matter and incorporates examples of rural and tribal students to paint a broader picture of what culturally rich mathematics classrooms actually look like. The text builds on sociocultural theory and research on culture and mathematics cognition to extend the literature and better understand minority students’ goals and learning needs. Including new discussion questions and new examples, lessons, and vignettes of integrating culture in the mathematics classroom, this book employs pedagogical research to field-test new instructional methods for culturally diverse and female students.
Keywords
african american students; black lives matter; black students; blm; cognition; computational thinking; computer scaffolding; critical race theory; crt; culturally diverse students; culture; cultural; funds of knowledge; game design; linguistically diverse students; math; mathematics education; maths; native american students; place; rural students; spatial visualization; stem educationDOI
10.4324/9781351255837ISBN
9780815368182, 9780815368175Publisher
Taylor & FrancisPublisher website
https://taylorandfrancis.com/Publication date and place
2018Imprint
RoutledgeClassification
Mathematics
Education
Educational strategies and policy
Teaching of students with learning difficulties