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Philosophical Considerations Always Already Entangled In Mathematics Education Research, David W. Stinson Jul 2020

Philosophical Considerations Always Already Entangled In Mathematics Education Research, David W. Stinson

Middle and Secondary Education Faculty Publications

In this paper, I explore how mathematics education research is always already entangled with and in ontological, epistemological, and ethical considerations—that is, philosophical considerations—of the researcher (or research team) from beginning to end. The danger in too much of the existing mathematics education research, however, is limited acknowledgement of how philosophical considerations drive both knowledge production and knowledge dissemination in the field. Illustrating how the concepts ontology, epistemology, and ethics are made sense of across the research paradigm spectrum—predict, understand, emancipate, and deconstruct—sheds light on not only the possible divergences in approaches to research (mathematics education or otherwise) but also …


Comic Book Conversations As Pedagogies Of Possibilities In Urban Spaces, Ewa Mcgrail, Gertrude Tinker Sachs, Megan Lewis Jan 2020

Comic Book Conversations As Pedagogies Of Possibilities In Urban Spaces, Ewa Mcgrail, Gertrude Tinker Sachs, Megan Lewis

Middle and Secondary Education Faculty Publications

The researchers in this qualitative case study explored the dialogic experiences of elementary school students during Comic Book Club meetings held in their local community resource center. The researchers wanted to know what experiences of dialogism were manifested in children’s conversations about reading, writing, and comic creation and what concepts of dialogism were evident in those experiences. The interview and observation data and artifacts suggest that co-construction of meaning and intertextuality played important roles in the dialogic experiences of the participants. Children’s co-construction of meaning and intertextuality also demonstrated engaged embodiment due to children’s spontaneous enactment of dance and dramatization …


Bridge Building Through A Duoethnography: Stories Of Nepanleras In The Land Of Liberation, Ethan Trinh, Leonardo Javier Merino Méndez Jan 2020

Bridge Building Through A Duoethnography: Stories Of Nepanleras In The Land Of Liberation, Ethan Trinh, Leonardo Javier Merino Méndez

Middle and Secondary Education Faculty Publications

This innovative volume showcases the possibilities of autoethnography as a means of exploring the complexities of transnational identity construction for learners, teachers, and practitioners in English language teaching (ELT). // The book unpacks the dynamics of today’s landscape of language education which sees practitioners and students with nuanced personal and professional histories inhabit liminal spaces as they traverse national, cultural, linguistic, ideological, and political borders, thereby impacting their identity construction and engagement with pedagogies and practices across different educational domains. The volume draws on solo and collaborative autoethnographies of transnational language practitioners to question such well-established ELT binaries such as …


Too Nepantlera To Write: Building An Inclusive Tribalism For All, Ethan Trinh Jan 2020

Too Nepantlera To Write: Building An Inclusive Tribalism For All, Ethan Trinh

Middle and Secondary Education Faculty Publications

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Suicide And Nepantla: Writing In In-Between Space To Crave Policy Change, Ethan Trinh Jan 2020

Suicide And Nepantla: Writing In In-Between Space To Crave Policy Change, Ethan Trinh

Middle and Secondary Education Faculty Publications

This autohistoria, or “a personal essay that theorizes,” is a special piece to me.[1] It is spiritual, poetic, political, and dialogic. This essay thus delves deeper into the mourning, the fear, the tears, the pain, the loneliness, the strength of a Vietnamese queer immigrant in a state of Nepantla in order to relate with other queers of color in the dark (i.e., in suicidal process). “Living in Nepantla, the overlapping space between different perceptions and belief systems, you are aware of the changeability of racial, gender, sexual, and other categories rendering the conventional labelling obsolete.”[2] In this space, …


Photovoice In A Vietnamese Immigrant Family: Untold Partial Stories Behind The Pictures, Ethan Trinh Jan 2020

Photovoice In A Vietnamese Immigrant Family: Untold Partial Stories Behind The Pictures, Ethan Trinh

Middle and Secondary Education Faculty Publications

This paper, in the form of walking meditation, sitting, drinking, eating, and traveling among spaces and times, witnesses how the author as a Vietnamese immigrant child living in the United States (U.S.) traces untold stories of their family through family photos. Further, this paper attempts to find, understand and connect the relation between personal and political, between individual and collective, for a Vietnamese re-education camp detainee and his family, situated in political, historical, and cultural context. The use of photo elicitation comes from the desire that the reader can engage with the voices of the family members as they describe …


Still You Resist: An Autohistoria-Teoria Of A Vietnamese Queer Teacher To Meditate, Teach, And Love In The Coatlicue State, Ethan Trinh Jan 2020

Still You Resist: An Autohistoria-Teoria Of A Vietnamese Queer Teacher To Meditate, Teach, And Love In The Coatlicue State, Ethan Trinh

Middle and Secondary Education Faculty Publications

This piece will be walking, writing, meditating in in-between spaces with me. I call this act queer walking meditation, which blended autohistoria, the Coatlicue State, and meditation to examine my own queer self. This queer walking meditation helps me move between stories, initiates dialogues with a self, recognizes my self's confusion, and leads to a series of actions to fight against the struggles and complicatedness in my identities. As a result, I learned how to mediate and take actions for myself and with my students from the standpoint of a Vietnamese queer, accented, Teaching English to Speakers of Other …


Scholars Before Researchers: Philosophical Considerations In The Preparation Of Mathematics Education Researchers, David W. Stinson Jan 2020

Scholars Before Researchers: Philosophical Considerations In The Preparation Of Mathematics Education Researchers, David W. Stinson

Middle and Secondary Education Faculty Publications

In this essay, the author explores how research in mathematics education is always already entangled with and in ontological, epistemological, and ethical considerations—that is, philosophical considerations—of the researcher from beginning to end. The danger in too much of the existing mathematics education research, however, is limited acknowledgement of how philosophical considerations drive both knowledge production and knowledge dissemination in the field. “Practical” definitions of ontology, epistemology, and ethics are provided as well as descriptions of how each concept is made sense of across the paradigms of inquiry spectrum: predict, understand, emancipate, and deconstruct. The author concludes the essay with a …