Trenzando Chicana Latina Feminist Perspectives into Mathematics Education

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium brings together scholars working in varied contexts with a shared commitment to center Chicana-Latina feminist (CLF) theories in mathematics education. The use of CLF theories and methodological approaches challenges dominant narratives and ways of knowing by centering the knowledge and perspectives of Latiné communities. Presenters explore how CLF perspectives, rooted in embodied knowledge, relationality, and healing, offer necessary disruptions in a field historically structured by whiteness and empirical logics. Through a plática, the symposium will use these varied perspectives to discuss the role of CLF in mathematics education and co-imagining futures that continue to sustain these commitments.

Sub Unit

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

Chairs

• Sabrina Zarza, Michigan State University

• Sandra Zuniga, San José State University

Papers

• Formas de Vivir: Latina Mothers as Co-Constructors of Knowledge - Susana Beltran-Grimm, Portland State University

• Building Mutual Trust Through Pláticas: Relational Approaches to Research Practice Partnerships in Early Childhood - Daniela Alvarez-Vargas, Colorado State University

• Pláticas Across Terrains: Navigating Institutional Whiteness in Mathematics Education - Sabrina Zarza, Michigan State University

• Revealing Our Work, Their Stories, and Historical Contexts Through Composite Counter-storytelling - Stacy Jones, University of Texas - San Antonio

Session Organizer

• Sabrina Zarza, Michigan State University

Discussant

• Rochelle Gutierrez, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign