David Wagner
Biographic Data
| ID | 3685286 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Wagner |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Wagner |
| SIGNATURE | WAGNER D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of New Brunswick |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2342-7192 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
A Post-colonial Analysis of Public Media & Policy Representations of Mathematics Education in Ghanaian and Nigerian Contexts
“New African” or “Old African”: Storylines of African Immigrant Parents’ Evolving Perspectives and Experiences of Their Children’s Mathematics Learning
Using theories of Afrocentricity (African Indigenous Knowledge) and of positioning, we investigated how Sub-Saharan African immigrant parents (SSAIP) support their Grade 6–9 children’s mathematics learning in Canada. Individual interviews were collected from twelve immigrant parents living in an urban community in Alberta and new to Canada (within five years). We ask: what are the mathematics experiences and perspectives of Sub-Saharan African im…
Beyond Ubuntu: African Immigrant Youth Experiences and Perspectives with Mathematics in School and Out-of-School Contexts
Abandoning Hope? What Mathematics Education Researchers Say About Why They Do What They Do
A research study was designed to understand how a group of mathematics education researchers describe their scholarly work—why they do it and how their research relates to a specific conceptualization of culturally responsive pedagogy (CRP). In the analysis of interviews with 17 international mathematics education researchers, we distilled the scholars’ descriptions of their hopes for their scholarly action. The themes of these distillations incl…
Promoting dialogical critical thinking in education: Examining teachers’ practices and conceptualizations in the Norwegian school context
The importance of Critical Thinking (CT), as a set of central competences for future and present citizens and as a prerequisite for a participative democratic life, is today beyond question. However, teachers seem relatively poorly equipped to teach CT, having both theoretical and methodological needs
Storylines in Voices of Frustration: Implications for Mathematics Teacher Education in Changing Times
We have interviewed becoming mathematics teachers, in the last semester of their education, asking how they experience their time as teacher students with the focus on inclusive teaching. In their forthcoming daily work, they will be responsible for arranging for inclusive teaching that addresses all the learners’ needs in mathematics. We believe the voices of future teachers are important to include in conversations about how programs prepare fu…
A Review and Research Agenda for Brand Communities in Sports
Research on brand communities has burgeoned over the past 2 decades. Today many, if not most, sport organizations are entertaining dedicated brand communities. This article traces the development of community thinking in the field of sport management and marketing. Key articles on brand communities in leading journals in the field are identified, reviewed, and their core contributions distilled. By drawing on literature from adjacent fields, seve…
Tensions and Hopes for Embedding Peace and Sustainability in Science Education: Stories from Science Textbook Authors
Age and Downward Mobility: From the Poorhouse to the Present
This article provides an overview of the problem of poverty and downward mobility for the elderly in the United States from the 19th Century to today. Using the author’s research with the history of poorhouses (also known as poor farms, workhouses, almshouses, and later county homes and hospitals) he describes the situation of many older people as they faced poverty, family estrangement, personal loss, and medical problems. Looking to provide a b…
Situated Perspectives on Creating Mathematics Tasks for Peace and Sustainability
The Epidemic of Madness: Killing the Community to Save It
Note as of August 1, 2020, the number of cases and deaths from the Cornoavirus, despite the so-called “surge” and daily headlines scaring people has remained well below many prior flu epidemics suc
Changing Storylines in Public Perceptions of Mathematics Education
Natur und Freiheit: Akten des XII. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses
Shantytown, USA: Forgotten Landscapes of the Working Poor
As an academic who has also spent time working with homeless and near-homeless people, I find that Lisa Goff's book makes a tremendous contribution and clarifies many issues in our history. Americans are quick to forget their history; this amnesia is greater regarding poor people than with other subjects. Goff traces a history of shantytowns from the early part of the nineteenth century through today. Shanties are makeshift homes crafted from a v…
Discursive Authority and Sociocultural Positioning in the Mathematics Classroom: New Directions for Teacher Professional Development
Facing the Mathematics: Students’ Critical Awareness of the Elusiveness of Mathematical Objects
Contesting Community: The Limits and Potential of Local Organizing
Both Hands Tied: Welfare Reform and the Race to the Bottom of the Low-Wage Labor Market
Radical Social Work as Conceit
Reading how social work describes itself in its professional literature, educational textbooks, and even internal correspondence (from professional organizations, accrediting bodies, and “progressi
Just Go”: Mathematics Students' Critical Awareness of Routine Procedure
Running as a Radical: The Challenge of Mainstream Politics
The Code of Ethics of the NASW asserts that social workers have an ethical mandate to engage in social and political action in order to “ensure that all people have equal access to the resources, employment, services, and opportunities they require to meet their basic human needs and to develop fully” (NASW, p. 27). Though social work publications and educators remind social workers and students of this mandate to be politically active, few autho…
Pointing at the flow of language
Richard A. Cloward, 1926–2001
Media Reviews
EMPOWERING WOMEN OF COLOR. Lorraine M. Gutierrez and Edith A. Lewis. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999, 272 pages. Reviewed by Marcia B. Cohen. SOCIAL WELFARE: A WORLD VIEW Kathenne van Wormer. Wadsworth: Belmont, CA, 1997, 678pages. Reviewed by Marilynn Moch. TALES OF WAYWARD GIRLS AND IMMORAL WOMEN: CASE RECORDS AND THE PROFESSIONALS ATION OF SOCIAL WORK. Karen W Tice. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998. Reviewed by Robert Fishe…
Progressive, Not
Contesting Community: The Limits and Potential of Local Organizing
The Power of the People: Homeless Protesters in the Aftermath of Social Movement Participation
The Power of the People: Homeless Protesters in the Aftermath of Social Movement Participation Get access David Wagner, David Wagner Correspondence to: Wagner, Department of Social Welfare, University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME 04103. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Marcia B. Cohen Marcia B. Cohen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, V…
Radical Movements in the Social Services: A Theoretical Framework
This article, based on research of a population of radical social workers active in the last decades, develops a theoretical framework for assessing radical movements among social service workers. In comparing these recent movements with those of the 1930s and 1940s, the author suggests a three-stage progression in which social unrest led by client groups stimulates groups of social service workers to ally with protesters; a second period charact…
Both Hands Tied: Welfare Reform and the Race to the Bottom of the Low-Wage Labor Market
Acting on Their Own Behalf: Affiliation and Political Mobilization among Homeless People
Homeless people have been portrayed in the literature as passive, isolated, and unable to act on their own behalf. The authors discuss the findings of an ethnographic study of homeless activists which challenge the stereotypical view of homeless people as disaffiliated and disempowered. Collective social action was found to have a long term impact on access to material resources, development of social networks, and construction of positive homele…
Running as a Radical: The Challenge of Mainstream Politics
The Code of Ethics of the NASW asserts that social workers have an ethical mandate to engage in social and political action in order to “ensure that all people have equal access to the resources, employment, services, and opportunities they require to meet their basic human needs and to develop fully” (NASW, p. 27). Though social work publications and educators remind social workers and students of this mandate to be politically active, few autho…
Social Work and the Hidden Victims of Deindustrialization
As the American economy changes from manufacturing to service industries, millions of workers are suffering the effects of "deindustrialization." Based on a joint union/university project, this article explores the impact of a plant closing and subsequent transition to a service based economy for more than 450 predominantly female textile workers. It suggests that many workers will suffer severe economic and social problems even after re-employme…
Collective Mobility and Fragmentation: A Model of Social Work History
The author utilizes recent sociological approaches to professionalism in order to develop a dynamic conceptual model of the history of Social Work. Professionalization is understood as a social movement or "collective mobility project" of the lower middle class which has been the dominant force in Social Work for a century. This social movement seeks control and expansion of professional markets for services and recognition and sanction from elit…
Progressive, Not
Collective Mobility and Fragmentation: A Model of Social Work History
The author utilizes recent sociological approaches to professionalism in order to develop a dynamic conceptual model of the history of Social Work. Professionalization is understood as a social movement or "collective mobility project" of the lower middle class which has been the dominant force in Social Work for a century. This social movement seeks control and expansion of professional markets for services and recognition and sanction from elit…
Radical Movements in the Social Services: A Theoretical Framework
This article, based on research of a population of radical social workers active in the last decades, develops a theoretical framework for assessing radical movements among social service workers. In comparing these recent movements with those of the 1930s and 1940s, the author suggests a three-stage progression in which social unrest led by client groups stimulates groups of social service workers to ally with protesters; a second period charact…
Reviving the Action Research Model: Combining Case and Cause with Dislocated Workers
Action research, a model combining research with activist goals and microlevel and macrolevel social work practice, has received little recent attention in the social work literature. This article reports on an action research project conducted by a major labor union and a university department of social work to assist dislocated workers in New England. A partnership of union-trained peer counselors and social work faculty and students combined a…
Social Work and the Hidden Victims of Deindustrialization
As the American economy changes from manufacturing to service industries, millions of workers are suffering the effects of "deindustrialization." Based on a joint union/university project, this article explores the impact of a plant closing and subsequent transition to a service based economy for more than 450 predominantly female textile workers. It suggests that many workers will suffer severe economic and social problems even after re-employme…
The Power of the People: Homeless Protesters in the Aftermath of Social Movement Participation
The Power of the People: Homeless Protesters in the Aftermath of Social Movement Participation Get access David Wagner, David Wagner Correspondence to: Wagner, Department of Social Welfare, University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME 04103. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Marcia B. Cohen Marcia B. Cohen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, V…
Acting on Their Own Behalf: Affiliation and Political Mobilization among Homeless People
Homeless people have been portrayed in the literature as passive, isolated, and unable to act on their own behalf. The authors discuss the findings of an ethnographic study of homeless activists which challenge the stereotypical view of homeless people as disaffiliated and disempowered. Collective social action was found to have a long term impact on access to material resources, development of social networks, and construction of positive homele…
Checkerboard Square: Culture and Resistance in a Homeless Community
The Universalization of Social Problems: Some Radical Explanations
An increasing variety of social problems have been declared universal problems that 'cross all lines' or 'can happen to anyone.' This paper argues that, while these claims are well-meaning, they often contradict empirical evidence about the clustering of social problems and, hence, must be explored sociologically for their latent meanings. The paper argues that, along with the manifest goals of raising funds for causes and remedying past discrimi…
TAZ servers and the rewebber network: Enabling anonymous publishing on the world wide web
The World Wide Web has recently matured enough to provide everyday users with an extremely cheap publishing mechanism. However, the current WWW architecture makes it fundamentally difficult to provide content without identifying yourself. We examine the problem of anonymous publication on the WWW, propose a design suitable for practical deployment, and describe our implementation. Some key features of our design include universal accessibility by…
The Liberal Discourse on Poverty: Decline and Contradictions
The New Temperance: The American Obsession with Sin and Vice
Progressive, Not
Media Reviews
EMPOWERING WOMEN OF COLOR. Lorraine M. Gutierrez and Edith A. Lewis. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999, 272 pages. Reviewed by Marcia B. Cohen. SOCIAL WELFARE: A WORLD VIEW Kathenne van Wormer. Wadsworth: Belmont, CA, 1997, 678pages. Reviewed by Marilynn Moch. TALES OF WAYWARD GIRLS AND IMMORAL WOMEN: CASE RECORDS AND THE PROFESSIONALS ATION OF SOCIAL WORK. Karen W Tice. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998. Reviewed by Robert Fishe…
Richard A. Cloward, 1926–2001
Pointing at the flow of language
Running as a Radical: The Challenge of Mainstream Politics
The Code of Ethics of the NASW asserts that social workers have an ethical mandate to engage in social and political action in order to “ensure that all people have equal access to the resources, employment, services, and opportunities they require to meet their basic human needs and to develop fully” (NASW, p. 27). Though social work publications and educators remind social workers and students of this mandate to be politically active, few autho…
Just Go”: Mathematics Students' Critical Awareness of Routine Procedure
Radical Social Work as Conceit
Reading how social work describes itself in its professional literature, educational textbooks, and even internal correspondence (from professional organizations, accrediting bodies, and “progressi
Facing the Mathematics: Students’ Critical Awareness of the Elusiveness of Mathematical Objects
Contesting Community: The Limits and Potential of Local Organizing
Both Hands Tied: Welfare Reform and the Race to the Bottom of the Low-Wage Labor Market
Discursive Authority and Sociocultural Positioning in the Mathematics Classroom: New Directions for Teacher Professional Development
Shantytown, USA: Forgotten Landscapes of the Working Poor
As an academic who has also spent time working with homeless and near-homeless people, I find that Lisa Goff's book makes a tremendous contribution and clarifies many issues in our history. Americans are quick to forget their history; this amnesia is greater regarding poor people than with other subjects. Goff traces a history of shantytowns from the early part of the nineteenth century through today. Shanties are makeshift homes crafted from a v…
Natur und Freiheit: Akten des XII. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses
Changing Storylines in Public Perceptions of Mathematics Education
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