Positioning and Positioned Apart: Mathematics Learning as Becoming Undesirable.
Neoliberal logics, a form of racial capitalism, adjudicate children as smart, able, and desirable (or not) in schools. I explore the social processes and structural arrangements by which such logics position a Latina mathematics student as "undesirable" in her class. Drawing on data collected over a...
| Publicado en: | Anthropology & Education Quarterly Vol. 52; no. 2; pp. 187 - 209 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Jun2021
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| Sumario: | Neoliberal logics, a form of racial capitalism, adjudicate children as smart, able, and desirable (or not) in schools. I explore the social processes and structural arrangements by which such logics position a Latina mathematics student as "undesirable" in her class. Drawing on data collected over a year, the analysis lays bare how undesirability is both a requirement of neoliberalism and an emergent position that she, her low‐track class, and her school come to occupy. |
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