Tensions and Failures in an Analysis of Whiteness among a Racially and Socially Diverse Group of Mathematics Teacher Educators

Victoria Hand; Beth Herbel-Eisenmann; Sunghwan Byun; Courtney Koestler; Tonya Bartell

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Chapter 6 Tensions and Failures in an Analysis of Whiteness among a Racially and Socially Diverse Group of Mathematics Teacher Educators

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Victoria Hand

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Pages:: 123–143

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004465800_006

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Abstract

In this chapter, we describe and critically examine the tensions and failures that emerged around a study of Whiteness among a racially diverse research team and the harm this caused to colleagues of Colour. Following Martin (2008), Whiteness is examined as a series of discursive moves that frame and guide activity among interlocutors. Analysis of the mechanisms through which the White researchers instantiated an institutional space of Whiteness on the research project unearthed significant discomfort among the authors along the lines of race and status. We draw on the concept of tensions and Pais’s notion of failure to discuss the difficulty of balancing discussions of ideologies versus individuals, racialisation versus intersectionality, agency and power, and academic versus practical change.

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Applying Critical Mathematics Education

Series: New Directions in Mathematics and Science Education, Volume: 35

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004465800

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 15 Jun 2021

Subjects
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Front Matter

Foreword

List of Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors

Chapter 1 Applying Critical Mathematics Education

Chapter 2 Culturally Situated Critical Mathematics Education

Chapter 3 Decolonising Mathematics Education in a Time of Reconciliation

Chapter 4 Propio as a Decolonising Tool for Mathematics Education

Chapter 5 The Potential of an Africa-Centred Approach to Theory-Use in Critical Mathematics Education

Chapter 6 Tensions and Failures in an Analysis of Whiteness among a Racially and Socially Diverse Group of Mathematics Teacher Educators

Chapter 7 “Mathematics Is Bad for Society”

Chapter 8 A Critical Mathematics Education for Climate Change

Chapter 9 The Mathematical Formatting of How Climate Change Is Perceived

Chapter 10 The Mathematical Formatting of Obesity in Public Health Discourse

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Chapter 11 From the Present Towards Hope for the Future

Chapter 12 Critical Mathematics Education Imaginaries

Chapter 13 Pessimism of the Intellect, Optimism of the Will

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