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Power relations within division of labor - the key to empowering learners from marginalized backgrounds in mathematics classrooms

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ID2168043
AuthorsSophina Choudry (0000-0002-6106-2913, University of Manchester, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume31
Issue2
Pages1-17
Publication date2023-12-05
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueMind Culture and Activity (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1074-9039 • E-ISSN: 1532-7884
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10749039.2023.2287448
OpenAlexW4389395987
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited32

Bringing Bourdieu and Cultural Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) together, I present, here, a methodology for pedagogic interventions that are developmental for non-dominant learners. Drawing on a Year 8 mathematics classroom (UK), I demonstrate how learners’ positioning, and position-takings in the division of labor of a teaching-learning activity (following CHAT) are mediated by objective power relations that perpetuate an inequitable educational system (following Bourdieu). Here, teachers recognizing and valuing learners’ non-dominant forms of capital, and peer relations is key to non-dominant learners’ enactment of agency and empowerment of their voices, and this can create opportunities of resistance, development, and change

Agency (philosophy · Cultural capital · Division (mathematics · Division of labour · Empowerment · Key (lock · Mathematics education · Pedagogy · Political science · Power (physics · Resistance (ecology · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Innovative Education and Learning Practices · Mathematics · Parental Involvement in Education · Psychology · Teacher Education and Leadership Studies

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