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What Gets Checked At The Door? Embracing Students' Complex Mathematical Identities, Jennifer L. Ruef
What Gets Checked At The Door? Embracing Students' Complex Mathematical Identities, Jennifer L. Ruef
Journal of Humanistic Mathematics
Identity formation is complex, ongoing, and context specific. To be successful in mathematics classes, students must negotiate and navigate the normative identity of the class--what counts as being "good at math" (Cobb, Gresalfi & Hodge, 2009). Within the constraints of normative identity, students must also negotiate a personal doer-of-math identity: who they are within the context of this particular mathematics class. When students are compelled to suppress key aspects of their identity in order to accommodate the normative identity of the class cognitive bandwidth for learning may be impeded (Steele, 1997). Conversely, when students are guided in braiding individual identity …
Understanding The Personal And Academic Experiences Of Graduate Students With Disabilities, Andrea Mozqueda
Understanding The Personal And Academic Experiences Of Graduate Students With Disabilities, Andrea Mozqueda
CGU Theses & Dissertations
This qualitative research study explored current graduate students with disabilities personal and academic experiences. The three theoretical frameworks utilized were Disability Studies in Education (DSE), intersectionality and Disability Critical Race Theory (DisCrit) to connect how race, gender, sexual orientation, and disability identities impact graduate students with disabilities experiences. This dissertation study had a total of four research questions to explore the impact of graduate students with disabilities higher education experiences. This research study was conducted at three different California higher education institutions: two private universities and one public university. There was a total of twenty graduate student participants interviewed that …