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Unforgetting Settler Colonial Histories of Science and Mathematics Education

Sat, April 11, 9:45 to 11:15am PDT (9:45 to 11:15am PDT), Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Room 304A

Session Type: Symposium

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The underexamined impacts of settler colonialism undermine possibilities to imagine education beyond settler futurities. In mathematics and science education, researchers and educators further confront settler narratives authorizing these disciplines as neutral arbiters of natural realities and metrics of human quality. Interweaving methods from settler colonial studies and science studies, we excavate historical entanglements between colonialism and curriculum, including mechanisms of Native elimination and appropriative dispossession, still manifest in state-sanctioned school curriculum. This symposium features a chair, discussant, and archival studies examining settler inscriptions of knowledge and personhood from 17th-century mathematics in New Spain, to arithmetic instruction in U.S. boarding schools, to plantation pedagogies of agricultural science at Hampton and Tuskegee, to 20th-century segregated science instruction for Mexican American students.

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