Unpacking the Baggage: An Analysis of Preservice Teachers’ Mathematics Histories and Positions of Privilege

• In Event: Equity and Mathematics Education Brief Report Session: Equity and Teachers

Description for Program

PSTs write personal mathematics autobiographies often revealing “baggage” from their past. This study goes beyond the universal characteristics of an adversarial relationship with mathematics. The baggage also contains privilege and oppression as it relates to the stories of these PSTs.

Authors

• Rebecca Smith Nance, University of Mississippi

• Anne Marie Marshall, Lehman College