Posture, Pivot, Rift: Ecological Mathematical Agency in Pre-service Teacher Education

• In Event: 75.036 - Critical Perspectives on Pedagogy Across Content Areas

Abstract

This paper examines constellations of mobility among movement, representations, and practices across multiple settings as new formations of equitable mathematics teacher education. I extend a line of teacher education inquiry whereby insight from the learning sciences – specifically, that learning is situated within and spans multiple learning ecology settings – reorients the physical and conceptual pathways of pre-service teacher learning. Drawing upon a larger design-based research study, I employ connective ethnography methods to describe the emergent mobilities of two mathematics methods course activities across time and setting: Value Times Experience and Mapping My Math. Tracing emergent mobilities articulates equitable mathematics education as unsettling teacher learning across settings, contested and improvisational, and supportive of other trans-spatial efforts in teacher education.

Author

• Jeremiah Holden Kalir, University of Colorado - Denver