David Pomeroy

Senior Lecturer in Education @UCNZ. Justice and joy in mathematics learning. Pākehā/white. He/him

[David Pomeroy @dchpomeroy]

New paper on 'ability' grouping in @BJSocEd with inspiring co-author @Jeffery_Quaye. "How secondary mathematics teachers describe and teach ‘ability’ groups: discursive and non-discursive practices". Paywalled so DM for an e-print @GroupingStudy @TrackDetrackSIG

[Dr Jeffery Quaye OBE @Jeffery_Quaye]

New paper out! I’m excited to share this latest co-authored article with my amazing friend @dchpomeroy which is published in the British Journal of Sociology of Education. The paper draws on Foucault’s scholarship of discursive and non-discursive practices to explore how social class and race interact with the way mathematics teachers teach ‘ability’ groups. Read the full paper here 👇

https://t.co/QNvCcM7gSf
#maths #education @UCNZ @AspirationsAT @joboaler @BeckyFrancis7 @Mathematical_A

[David Pomeroy @dchpomeroy]

‘When academic knowledge is weaponised by being used as the means of one’s humiliation, the relationship between child and academic knowledge is warped’. A privilege to review "Bottom Set Citizen: Ability grouping in schools" by @PaulaAmbrossi https://t.co/yjMdkpntzh

[David Pomeroy @dchpomeroy]

@TrackDetrackSIG Thank you for all the research that you share, it's appreciated, internationally! 💚

[David Pomeroy @dchpomeroy]

@JaneEPerryman @britjeducstud @AliceJBradbury @IOE_London Meanwhile in Aotearoa (New Zealand), the govt is 'overhauling' the Education Review Office to focus more on 'progress, achievement and assessment' and our Ministry of Ed will 'sharpen its approach' to intervening in schools🤯https://t.co/0fmYGj4MRY

[David Pomeroy @dchpomeroy]

Our work in Aotearoa/NZ: Shame, entitlement, and the systemic racism of mathematics “ability” grouping in Aotearoa New Zealand https://t.co/FQLIiRUQ8E

[David Pomeroy @dchpomeroy]

This US legal analysis of tracking ('ability' grouping) argues that it's a form of racialised 'dignitary harm'. This adds to the growing body of research documenting the shame and humiliation that 'ability' grouping can cause.

[AERA Tracking and Detracking SIG @TrackDetrackSIG]

In this new law review article, Kumar Ramanathan and Matthew Nelsen suggest that tracking functions as a "dignitary harm of racism" in schools.

https://t.co/EKmCxIkdzu

[David Pomeroy @dchpomeroy]

‘You feel ashamed that you are not in the higher group’—Children’s psychosocial response to ability grouping in primary school https://t.co/VJp3ycL8zV

[Vincent O'Malley @vomalley]

Researchers pen scathing open letter to Minister over Marsden Fund changes https://t.co/Y79kHY4uKc

[David Pomeroy @dchpomeroy]

Call for papers! Special Issue of NZ Journal of Education Studies on "Mathematics/pāngarau Education in Times of Change" - manuscripts due 1st April 2025 https://t.co/lt3IGHJkOw

[David Pomeroy @dchpomeroy]

@benjaminjame5 @PeterByardDavis Best PM of my lifetime hands down

[David Pomeroy @dchpomeroy]

@DrTanyaEvansNZ @ScienceUoA @AucklandUni Big congrats @DrTanyaEvansNZ!

[David Pomeroy @dchpomeroy]

@ThomsonPat Hard agree - thank you for this post! So often the 'limitations' are actually well-justified choices

[David Pomeroy @dchpomeroy]

A response to the NZ govt's rapid changes to maths education, with Dr Lisa Darragh. TLDR: not *all* bad but govt using a crisis narrative to justify fast-tracking implementation of poorly justified changes. https://t.co/5hTMNEKGie via @ConversationEDU @AkoResearchUC @UCNZ

[Kirsten Locke @Iamkirsten3]

Our current government may be trying its hardest to narrow education, but it's worth remembering NZ has a strong history of creative, arts-based, democratic ideas that have informed our education system. Here's an exciting opportunity for someone to research this further:

[David Pomeroy @dchpomeroy]

@DrJoannaT The typologies on qualitative research in most methods textbooks (case study, phenomenology, ethnography etc.) are often unhelpful as most qual research does not neatly fit into one category

[AERA Tracking and Detracking SIG @TrackDetrackSIG]

This two-year ethnography demonstrates how science teachers categorize students as "not honors material" even as school attempted to detrack.

https://t.co/4FMtg81QJY

[UCL Action for Palestine @UCLAFP]

‼️ UCL ACADEMIC BOARD VOTES IN FAVOUR OF MOTIONS TO REVIEW TIES WITH ARMS COMPANIES, INVESTMENTS AND SET UP A SCHOLARSHIP FOR PALESTINIAN STUDENTS AND ACADEMICS ‼️

Long live the Apartheid Free Zone! For Palestinian liberation and life, from the river to the sea 🇵🇸🙏🏽❤️‍🔥

[David Pomeroy @dchpomeroy]

@TrackDetrackSIG Thanks for sharing - on the reading list!

[David Pomeroy @dchpomeroy]

I just signed - will you join me? Save ECE Pay Parity https://t.co/pD36DKVy8x via @actionstation

[David Pomeroy @dchpomeroy]

@DrBronwynRO @ameliasweeney93 On my reading list for next week - looks great!