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
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
‘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
@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
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.
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
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
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
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:
@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
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 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 🇵🇸🙏🏽❤️🔥