What a Shame: Thinking Teacher Education, Mathematics, and "Productive Disposition” Through a Politics of Emotion

• In Event: More than Numbers: The Emotional Labor of Mathematics

Abstract

Our aim is to explore how elementary teachers narrate their mathematical experiences from within a cultural politics of emotion (Ahmed, 2004) and how those experiences align with the ‘productive disposition’ that is advocated by professional standards for mathematics teacher preparation (AMTE, 2017). Drawing on data ranging from autobiographical narratives to silhouettes, we trace the affective landscapes that form the teachers’ evolving dispositions towards mathematics. Our research explores the following questions: How do emotions shape individual and collective bodies? And how might these shapings inform our work as mathematics teacher educators in relation to productive dispositions?

Authors

• Susan Ophelia Cannon, University of Georgia

• Kelly Dollarhide, University of Georgia

• Kate O'Brien, Manchester Metropolitan University

• Saniye Nur Ergan, Ordu University