Poster #31 - Labeling and Learning: "English Language Learners" in Agentive Mathematics Pedagogy

• In Event: 47.099 - MTCC Poster Session 11
  In Poster Session: 47.099-5 - Learning Sciences SIG Poster Session

Abstract

Building on studies on the intertwinement between learning and identity, this study critically examined how an institutionalized label such as “English language learners (ELL)” can shape students’ experiences of learning in the pedagogical context centralizing students’ agency in mathematics learning. For this purpose, I focused on the mathematics unit that highlighted students’ everyday experiences in their school playgrounds and honoured their voices to transform the school space. Based on the ethnographic video study and analysis of types of learning opportunities that students accessed, I demonstrate the power of institutionalized labelling to shape access to more agentive and creative mathematics learning opportunities.

Author

• Miwa Takeuchi, University of Calgary