Insights and Reflections of a Qualitative Study on Math Co-Design Session Tools

• In Event: Culturally Situated Approaches in Qualitative Research

Abstract

This paper focuses on insights and reflections on four co-design activities, integrating culturally sensitive approaches that respect and value the lived experiences of Latina mothers. Drawing from a qualitative phenomenological study exploring Latina mothers' co-design and math activity with young children, the paper underscores the mothers' ways of knowing, highlighting co-design methods to highlight the mothers' unique perspectives, focusing on their experiences and traditions with math in co-design sessions. The article contributes to the literature on co-design methodologies to include culturally inclusive research tools and practices, emphasizing a co-design process that works "with" rather than "for" non-dominant social groups.

Author

• Susana Beltran-Grimm, Portland State University