Math Education Speaker Series – 25.04.17 – Yeh

Join us on Thursday, April 17 from 6:00pm-7:00pm in Room ??? of WED (2 Silber Way, Boston, MA 02215) for the final talk in this year’s Mathematics Education Speaker Series. Dr. Cathery Yeh (University of Texas at Austin) will be presenting her work titled, “Co-Designing a Practical Measure to Reconceptualize Ability, Normativity, and Access in Mathematics Education”. Below is an abstract of her talk:

In this talk, Cathery will discuss the collaborative (re)development of a practical measure designed to capture embodied participation. Working alongside four mathematics and special education teachers who support students at the intersections of multiple marginalized identities—including students of color, emergent bilinguals, and students with disabilities—a classroom observation tool was redesigned to better capture embodied participation. This talk presents the theoretical and methodological approach, grounded in Disability Critical Race Theory and DisCrit Classroom Ecology, along with the outcomes of engaging teachers in the collaborative design and testing of research tools. By expanding beyond verbal-only measures, this research offers critical insights into student participation and contributes to the growing body of scholarship on equitable classroom measures.