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Learning from teaching: Exploring the relationship between reform curriculum and equity

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posted on 2023-06-26, 07:13 authored by Jo Boaler
Some researchers have expressed doubts about the potential of reform-oriented curricula to promote equity. This article considers this important issue and argues that investigations into equitable teaching must pay attention to the particular practices of teaching and learning that are enacted in classrooms. Data are presented from two studies in which middle school and high school teachers using reform-oriented mathematics curricula achieved a reduction in linguistic, ethnic, and class inequalities in their schools. The teaching and learning practices that these teachers employed were central to the attainment of equality, suggesting that it is critical that relational analyses of equity go beyond the curriculum to include the teacher and their teaching.

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Publication status

  • Published

Journal

Journal for Research in Mathematics Education

ISSN

0021-8251

Publisher

National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Issue

4

Volume

33

Page range

239-258

Pages

20

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  • Education Publications

Notes

This paper was written in response to an anti-reform rhetoric developing in the USA as a result of a paper by S Lubienski suggesting that working class children cannot cope with more open mathematics. It was important to counter the movement with careful research. The paper is recommended by the president of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics as research that should inform teaching (http://www.nctm.org/about/content.aspx?id=908) and by the National Science Foundation (http://www2.edc.org/mcc/PDF/annobib3.pdf).

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Legacy Posted Date

2012-02-06

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