Unforgetting Patriarchy in Mathematics Education Research

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium is about mathematics education research that unforgets patriarchy in the study of women and gender. Building on calls for mathematics education research to expand its approach to gender (e.g., Hall & Norén, 2021), the symposium examines the limits and reach of patriarchy as an analytic lens on what frees or constrains the lives and learning of students. Each paper represents a reanalysis of previously published work to illustrate what this analytic lens can contribute (and foreclose on) in advancing equity. Aligned with the conference theme of looking back to imagine forward, this symposium speaks to the symbolic and material conditions of mathematics education (research) in building and fortifying a multiracial and gender diverse society for generations to come.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Socio-Political Issues in Mathematics and Science Education

Chair

• Catherine C. Riegle-Crumb, University of Notre Dame

Papers

• When Girl is Not the Problem and Gender Analysis is Not the Only Solution - Tesha Sengupta-Irving, University of California - Berkeley

• Contando Historias Matématicas: Making Visible the Complexity of Mathematical Masternarratives in Storytelling - Sandra Zuniga, San José State University

• (Re)membering Black Girls’ Mathematical Brilliance: The Patriarchal Politics of Advanced Math Access - Shanyce L. Campbell, University of Pittsburgh

• Quick and Languid: Shifting Tempos in the Learning of Mathematics - Arundhati Velamur, New York University

Session Organizer

• Tesha Sengupta-Irving, University of California - Berkeley

Discussants

• Maisie L. Gholson, University of Michigan

• Melissa Sommerfeld Gresalfi, Vanderbilt University