Building a Community Through Equitable Noticing

• In Event: Saturday Roundtable 7:45 am
  In Roundtable Session: Social Justice and Equity in Mathematics Education (Table 7)

Abstract

This proposed presentation describes a community building processes centered on equitable noticing knowledge and practices. Participants collaborated to consider how their attention, interpretations, and instructional decisions hold the power to disrupt existing power structures, create new pathways for access, and connect teaching and learning experiences to the identities of children historically marginalized in mathematical spaces. This presentation will highlight elements of this project that might be scaled for prospective teachers of mathematics to further their understanding of equitable practices as well as examine limitations and lessons learned from our efforts and conclude with suggestions for refining community-building in this way.

Authors

• Jonathan Norris Thomas, University of Kentucky

• Cindy Jong, University of Kentucky

• Molly H. Fisher, Rowan University

• Edna O. Schack, Morehead State University