Blackness and the Pandemic: Critiquing the Mathematics Curriculum in a Large Urban City

IF 2.7 Q1 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

Equity & Excellence in Education Pub Date : 2022-05-26 DOI:10.1080/10665684.2022.2076783

Nickolaus A. Ortiz, Naomi A. Jessup

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Abstract

ABSTRACT The COVID-19 pandemic brought booming economies, seemingly world-class health care systems, educational infrastructures, and the lives and well-being of nations to a complete standstill. Georgia was one of the few states that released their Shelter-in-Place order early, while reports suggest that Black communities have disproportionally higher rates of deaths and hospitalizations. What mathematics would allow students to critically examine the data shared and other data reported about the COVID-19 pandemic? In this essay, we apply a culturally relevant pedagogical (CRP) lens to examine the mathematics curriculum taught in K-12 schools before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, we consider the shortcomings of the curriculum given the impact of the pandemic on Black communities in Atlanta, Georgia, and the barrage of statistics used to inform their lives. We consider how to look at mathematics curriculum through a CRP lens and what that means in terms of the scope of standards that are being addressed and the flexibility for teachers to have autonomy to go beyond the prescribed curriculum. Two concentration areas are addressed, and they highlight how to use a CRP lens for secondary and elementary mathematics relevant to our local context in ways that envision how mathematics curriculum can support Black children moving forward.

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黑人与流行病：对大城市数学课程的批判

2019冠状病毒病大流行使蓬勃发展的经济、看似世界级的医疗保健系统、教育基础设施以及国家的生活和福祉完全停滞不前。佐治亚州是少数几个提前发布“就地安置令”的州之一，而有报道称，黑人社区的死亡率和住院率高得不成比例。什么样的数学可以让学生批判性地检查关于COVID-19大流行的共享数据和其他报告数据?在本文中，我们运用与文化相关的教学(CRP)视角来研究在2019冠状病毒病大流行之前和期间K-12学校教授的数学课程。具体地说，我们考虑到这一流行病对佐治亚州亚特兰大黑人社区的影响以及用来告知他们生活的大量统计数据，考虑到课程的缺点。我们考虑如何通过CRP的视角来看待数学课程，这在标准的范围方面意味着什么，以及教师在规定课程之外拥有自主权的灵活性。两个重点领域的讨论，他们强调如何使用CRP镜头的中小学数学相关的我们当地的情况下，设想如何数学课程可以支持黑人儿童向前发展的方式。

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Equity & Excellence in Education EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH-

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3.80

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23.10%

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期刊介绍： Equity & Excellence in Education publishes articles based on scholarly research utilizing qualitative or quantitative methods, as well as essays that describe and assess practical efforts to achieve educational equity and are contextualized within an appropriate literature review. We consider manuscripts on a range of topics related to equity, equality and social justice in K-12 or postsecondary schooling, and that focus upon social justice issues in school systems, individual schools, classrooms, and/or the social justice factors that contribute to inequality in learning for students from diverse social group backgrounds. There have been and will continue to be many social justice efforts to transform educational systems as well as interpersonal interactions at all levels of schooling.