Martha Allexsaht-Snider
Biographic Data
| ID | 85683 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martha Allexsaht-Snider |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martha |
| FAMILY NAME | Allexsaht-Snider |
| SIGNATURE | ALLEXSAHT-SNIDER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Georgia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Refugee Families’ Resources for Children’s Education: A Dynamic Use of the Community Cultural Wealth Model
The accelerating trend of large-scale displacement and forced migration of people around the world has created an urgent need for access to quality education for children with refugee status in resettlement contexts, as well as a need for innovative and responsive ways to support their families. In this article, using two years of data collected from research on the border between Türkiye and Syria, we explored the knowledge and understanding of …
Implementing and sustaining coding and robotics practices in rural elementary school districts: An activity theory perspective
In this study, we investigated a rural school district’s endeavor to implement and sustain coding and robotics integration into their elementary school classrooms. Our data sources were teacher and administrator interviews, video recordings of teachers’ learning of coding and robotics, and artifacts. The analysis showed that administrators and teachers developed deeper interests in including coding and robotics practices in their schools, particu…
Being on the Other Side of the Table”: A Qualitative Study of a Community-Based Science Learning Program With Latinx Families
Building upon a Freirean notion of dialogic education, the purpose of this multi-case study was to explore what happened when secondary science teachers came together with Latinx parents for their children’s science learning in the context of a community-based science learning program. Constant comparative analysis of data revealed similarities and differences among the cases that were analyzed in three categories: recognition, adaptation, and pr…
Understanding Refugee Families’ Potentials for Supporting Children’s Mathematics Learning
Background/Context: We lack a nuanced understanding of the potentials and needs of multilingual families, particularly those with forced displacement histories, in contributing to children’s mathematics learning. As educators seek to increase refugee students’ access to powerful mathematics learning, an understanding of how refugee families view and participate in their children’s mathematics learning can offer insights for how we might reach the…
Manifestations of Mathematics within the Power Dynamics in a Pre-K Classroom
Background/Context Young children's engagement with mathematics is occurring in a context in which school transition and readiness concerns that invoke increased institutional rules and disciplinary practices involving power dynamics are coming into play. These trends made us curious to undertake an in-depth investigation of the different ways children and their teachers engage in mathematics in preschool classrooms today. Purpose/Focus of Study …
Figured worlds of immigrant fathers, sons, and daughters in steps to college through science bilingual family workshops
Interest in parents’ roles in promoting students’ academic success and career aspirations, especially in STEM areas, has grown as educators and world leaders set goals for expanding and diversifying the STEM workforce and extending science literacy across the globe. Responding to a call for research on fathers’ roles, and considering the rise in immigrant populations in many regions of the world, the study reported here investigates the experienc…
Using the Sociology of Associations to Rethink STEM Education
Using three constructs taken from Latour's 2005 book, Reassembling the Social, we consider our work in 2 contexts that were part of a project to support science teachers working with English learners: an 8th-grade physical science class in a summer science enrichment academy, and a 6th-grade Earth science class in a public middle school. We utilize Latour's constructs of (a) group formation, (b) mediators and intermediaries, and (c) traces of int…
Latina Mothers and Daughters: Ways of Knowing, Being, and Becoming in the Context of Bilingual Family Science Workshops
Building on previous research of family engagement and using perspectives drawn from Chicana/Latina feminist theories, in this ethnographic study we explored how Latina mothers and daughters negotiated and contested multiple ways of knowing during bilingual science family workshops. Our research illustrated that critical pedagogies Latina mothers enacted in spaces intersecting family, school, and community contexts and how they navigated aspects …
Research and Praxis On Challenging Anti-immigration Discourses in School and Community Contexts
Recently, harsh immigration policies have made the lives of the new immigrant Diaspora in the southeastern United States extremely challenging. Disturbed by the impact of these sociopolitical changes on students, their families, and their teachers, as multicultural educators, we have turned for help to recent research and praxis from the U.S. and Europe that overtly challenges anti-immigration discourse. We examine two theoretical perspectives th…
Challenging Anti-Immigration Discourses in School and Community Contexts
Rapid migration shifts, anti-immigrant discourses in the public sphere, and harsh immigration policies have posed daunting challenges for immigrant students, their families, their teachers, and their communities in the 21st century. Trends in public discourse and law enforcement in the United States mirror developments in European countries with high levels of immigration. Informed by the research and praxis of eight teams of researchers in the U…
Mathematics professional development for elementary teachers: Building trust within a school-based mathematics education community
Mathematics for All: How Do We Get There
Windows into Diverse Worlds: The Telling and Sharing of Teachers' Life Histories
Educational renewal in an alternative teacher education program: Evolution of a school-university partnership
Mathematics for All: How Do We Get There
Latina Mothers and Daughters: Ways of Knowing, Being, and Becoming in the Context of Bilingual Family Science Workshops
Building on previous research of family engagement and using perspectives drawn from Chicana/Latina feminist theories, in this ethnographic study we explored how Latina mothers and daughters negotiated and contested multiple ways of knowing during bilingual science family workshops. Our research illustrated that critical pedagogies Latina mothers enacted in spaces intersecting family, school, and community contexts and how they navigated aspects …
Educational renewal in an alternative teacher education program: Evolution of a school-university partnership
Challenging Anti-Immigration Discourses in School and Community Contexts
Rapid migration shifts, anti-immigrant discourses in the public sphere, and harsh immigration policies have posed daunting challenges for immigrant students, their families, their teachers, and their communities in the 21st century. Trends in public discourse and law enforcement in the United States mirror developments in European countries with high levels of immigration. Informed by the research and praxis of eight teams of researchers in the U…
Windows into Diverse Worlds: The Telling and Sharing of Teachers' Life Histories
Figured worlds of immigrant fathers, sons, and daughters in steps to college through science bilingual family workshops
Interest in parents’ roles in promoting students’ academic success and career aspirations, especially in STEM areas, has grown as educators and world leaders set goals for expanding and diversifying the STEM workforce and extending science literacy across the globe. Responding to a call for research on fathers’ roles, and considering the rise in immigrant populations in many regions of the world, the study reported here investigates the experienc…
Educational renewal in an alternative teacher education program: Evolution of a school-university partnership
Windows into Diverse Worlds: The Telling and Sharing of Teachers' Life Histories
Mathematics for All: How Do We Get There
Mathematics professional development for elementary teachers: Building trust within a school-based mathematics education community
Challenging Anti-Immigration Discourses in School and Community Contexts
Rapid migration shifts, anti-immigrant discourses in the public sphere, and harsh immigration policies have posed daunting challenges for immigrant students, their families, their teachers, and their communities in the 21st century. Trends in public discourse and law enforcement in the United States mirror developments in European countries with high levels of immigration. Informed by the research and praxis of eight teams of researchers in the U…
Research and Praxis On Challenging Anti-immigration Discourses in School and Community Contexts
Recently, harsh immigration policies have made the lives of the new immigrant Diaspora in the southeastern United States extremely challenging. Disturbed by the impact of these sociopolitical changes on students, their families, and their teachers, as multicultural educators, we have turned for help to recent research and praxis from the U.S. and Europe that overtly challenges anti-immigration discourse. We examine two theoretical perspectives th…
Latina Mothers and Daughters: Ways of Knowing, Being, and Becoming in the Context of Bilingual Family Science Workshops
Building on previous research of family engagement and using perspectives drawn from Chicana/Latina feminist theories, in this ethnographic study we explored how Latina mothers and daughters negotiated and contested multiple ways of knowing during bilingual science family workshops. Our research illustrated that critical pedagogies Latina mothers enacted in spaces intersecting family, school, and community contexts and how they navigated aspects …
Figured worlds of immigrant fathers, sons, and daughters in steps to college through science bilingual family workshops
Interest in parents’ roles in promoting students’ academic success and career aspirations, especially in STEM areas, has grown as educators and world leaders set goals for expanding and diversifying the STEM workforce and extending science literacy across the globe. Responding to a call for research on fathers’ roles, and considering the rise in immigrant populations in many regions of the world, the study reported here investigates the experienc…
Using the Sociology of Associations to Rethink STEM Education
Using three constructs taken from Latour's 2005 book, Reassembling the Social, we consider our work in 2 contexts that were part of a project to support science teachers working with English learners: an 8th-grade physical science class in a summer science enrichment academy, and a 6th-grade Earth science class in a public middle school. We utilize Latour's constructs of (a) group formation, (b) mediators and intermediaries, and (c) traces of int…
Manifestations of Mathematics within the Power Dynamics in a Pre-K Classroom
Background/Context Young children's engagement with mathematics is occurring in a context in which school transition and readiness concerns that invoke increased institutional rules and disciplinary practices involving power dynamics are coming into play. These trends made us curious to undertake an in-depth investigation of the different ways children and their teachers engage in mathematics in preschool classrooms today. Purpose/Focus of Study …
Understanding Refugee Families’ Potentials for Supporting Children’s Mathematics Learning
Background/Context: We lack a nuanced understanding of the potentials and needs of multilingual families, particularly those with forced displacement histories, in contributing to children’s mathematics learning. As educators seek to increase refugee students’ access to powerful mathematics learning, an understanding of how refugee families view and participate in their children’s mathematics learning can offer insights for how we might reach the…
Being on the Other Side of the Table”: A Qualitative Study of a Community-Based Science Learning Program With Latinx Families
Building upon a Freirean notion of dialogic education, the purpose of this multi-case study was to explore what happened when secondary science teachers came together with Latinx parents for their children’s science learning in the context of a community-based science learning program. Constant comparative analysis of data revealed similarities and differences among the cases that were analyzed in three categories: recognition, adaptation, and pr…
Implementing and sustaining coding and robotics practices in rural elementary school districts: An activity theory perspective
In this study, we investigated a rural school district’s endeavor to implement and sustain coding and robotics integration into their elementary school classrooms. Our data sources were teacher and administrator interviews, video recordings of teachers’ learning of coding and robotics, and artifacts. The analysis showed that administrators and teachers developed deeper interests in including coding and robotics practices in their schools, particu…
Refugee Families’ Resources for Children’s Education: A Dynamic Use of the Community Cultural Wealth Model
The accelerating trend of large-scale displacement and forced migration of people around the world has created an urgent need for access to quality education for children with refugee status in resettlement contexts, as well as a need for innovative and responsive ways to support their families. In this article, using two years of data collected from research on the border between Türkiye and Syria, we explored the knowledge and understanding of …
Pedagogy (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Mathematics education (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Parental Involvement in Education (5 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (4 works) · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Connected Mathematics (3 works)