New directions for equity in mathematics education
The issue of how to provide equitable schooling for ethnic and linguistic minorities has come to the forefront of education. Walter Secada has brought together top researchers to examine equity from the standpoint of mathematics education - an excellent forum for the topic, since the results are quantifiable and the disparity in performance is stark.
Print Book, English, 1995
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Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1995
Estudios, ensayos, etc
xi, 364 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
9780521477208, 9780521471527, 0521477204, 0521471524
954585398
Part I. Introduction: 1. The Quasar project: equity concerns meet mathematics education reform in the middle school; 2. Can equity thrive in a culture of mathematical excellence?; 3. Equity and mathematics education; 4. Making mathematics meaningful in multicultural contexts; 5. Social and critical dimensions for equity in mathematics education; 6. Equity in mathematics education: class in the world outside the class; 7. Economics, equity, and the national mathematics assessment: are we creating a national tollroad?; Part II. Equity Inside the Mathematics Classroom: Fact or Artefact?: 8. Redefining the 'girl problem in mathematics'; 9. Gender and mathematics from a feminist standpoint; 10. Attitudes, persistence, and mathematics achievement: qualifying race and sex differences; Part III. Making Inequality: Issues of Language and Meanings in Mathematics Teaching with Hispanic Students: 11. Equity in the future tense: redefining relationships among teachers, students, and science in linguistic minority classrooms; 12. Taking power seriously: new directions in equity in mathematics education and beyond.
"Published in collaboration with the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics."