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...

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Publicado en:Anthropology & Education Quarterly Vol. 52; no. 2; pp. 187 - 209
Autor principal: Sengupta‐Irving, Tesha
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: 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.