{"title":"Stories of devoted university students: the mathematical experience as a form of ascesis","authors":"Francesco Beccuti, Paola Valero, Ornella Robutti","doi":"10.1007/s10649-023-10259-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10649-023-10259-4","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Drawing on autobiographical essays written by master’s students in mathematics preparing to become teachers, we investigate what mathematical identity these students articulate and how. By means of a discursive thematic analysis centered on the notion of ascesis, we show that the participants’ identity revolves around a characterization of mathematics as a challenging, useful, and comforting activity or knowledge, which is however regarded negatively by others. Indeed, mathematics is described as a uniquely challenging activity which requires an increasingly demanding self-discipline. Moreover, mathematics is depicted as a variously useful form of knowledge which is additionally capable to offer comfort to those who engage with it. However, the participants often remark that other people regard mathematics negatively, a fact explained by stressing others’ inability or unwillingness to understand or appreciate mathematics’ inherent positive features. This sets the boundary of an ideal club of math enthusiasts whose elitist membership is regulated in terms of acceptance or refusal of its constitutive values. Belonging to the club as well as proselytizing in order to recruit new members appears to be central to the participants’ mathematical identity.","PeriodicalId":48107,"journal":{"name":"Educational Studies in Mathematics","volume":"103 10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136192393","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“You can’t just check the box”: the mathematics of ethnoracial contortions at a California high school","authors":"Emma C. Gargroetzi","doi":"10.1007/s10649-023-10258-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10649-023-10258-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48107,"journal":{"name":"Educational Studies in Mathematics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2023-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44569354","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Study of modeling questions in a first-year university mathematics online course","authors":"Camilo Andrés Ramírez-Sánchez, Avenilde Romo-Vázquez, Rebeca Romo-Vázquez, Diana Velásquez-Rojas","doi":"10.1007/s10649-023-10261-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10649-023-10261-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48107,"journal":{"name":"Educational Studies in Mathematics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2023-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44625388","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Racialized deviance as an axiom in the mathematics education equity genre","authors":"Erika C. Bullock","doi":"10.1007/s10649-023-10260-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10649-023-10260-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48107,"journal":{"name":"Educational Studies in Mathematics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48176183","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Meta-mathematical aspects of definitions","authors":"Nava Gilboa, T. Dreyfus, Ivy Kidron","doi":"10.1007/s10649-023-10252-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10649-023-10252-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48107,"journal":{"name":"Educational Studies in Mathematics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47612070","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The racial role of mathematicians and mathematics in maintaining the Israeli military occupation","authors":"J. Alshwaikh","doi":"10.1007/s10649-023-10255-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10649-023-10255-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48107,"journal":{"name":"Educational Studies in Mathematics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44481005","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Shifts in student attention on algorithmic and creative practice tasks","authors":"Mathias Norqvist, B. Jonsson, Johan Lithner","doi":"10.1007/s10649-023-10250-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10649-023-10250-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48107,"journal":{"name":"Educational Studies in Mathematics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49153348","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Facilitating factors and obstacles in the coordination of theoretical probability and relative frequency estimates of probability","authors":"JinHyeong Park, Dong-Won Kim","doi":"10.1007/s10649-023-10253-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10649-023-10253-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48107,"journal":{"name":"Educational Studies in Mathematics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41711889","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: International and diverse. Failed but seminal. Dirk de Bock (Ed.). (2023) Modern Mathematics. An International Movement?","authors":"A. Oller-Marcén","doi":"10.1007/s10649-023-10257-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10649-023-10257-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48107,"journal":{"name":"Educational Studies in Mathematics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48045276","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Clustering eye-movement data uncovers students’ strategies for coordinating equations and diagrams of vector fields","authors":"Larissa Hahn, P. Klein","doi":"10.1007/s10649-023-10243-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10649-023-10243-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48107,"journal":{"name":"Educational Studies in Mathematics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47021092","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}