A taxonomy of (mathematics) educational opportunity

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Resumo

Mathematics education research and policy makers lament differences in outcomes related to race and class, treating so called “failures” as obstacles to be eliminated, rather than the outcomes for which it is designed. That is, mathematics education serves an important economic function in society: social selection and economic stratification. Following literature that foregrounds the economic dimension of schools, this analysis offers an examination of how inequalities are created and reinforced through a taxonomy of mathematics educational opportunity. More specifically, it addresses two questions: 1) What are the opportunities that contribute to the creation and reinforcement of social inequality in rural schooling? and 2) In what ways are those opportunities hoarded or leveraged to accomplish stratification? Through an ethnography of a rural, public elementary school in the United States, five opportunities emerged: learning, credentialing, positioning, relating, and networking. The paper offers a conceptualization of each of the types grounded in mathematics education literature and describes how those opportunities were distributed. I suggest that mathematics education’s focus on learning opportunities, while important, fails to account for other dimensions of equity in schools. These other, often invisible, opportunities and the mechanisms by which they are distributed are likely a source of significant inequity.

Dados da obra

Tipo: Artigo
Periódico: Prometeica, v. 31
Editora: Universidade Federal de São Paulo
Ano: 2024
Idioma: en
Palavras-chave: rural education; educational opportunity; mathematics education; economic stratification
DOI: 10.34024/prometeica.2024.31.16403
ISSN: 1852-9488
Acesso: Acesso aberto
Fontes: DOAJ — Directory of Open Access Journals
Na Biblioteca desde: 01/10/2026 · verificada em 03/10/2026

Como citar

ABNT
KINDER, Cassandra. A taxonomy of (mathematics) educational opportunity. Prometeica, v. 31, 2024. DOI: https://doi.org/10.34024/prometeica.2024.31.16403.

APA

Kinder, C. (2024). A taxonomy of (mathematics) educational opportunity. Prometeica, 31. https://doi.org/10.34024/prometeica.2024.31.16403

BibTeX

@article{kinder2024,
  author = {Kinder, Cassandra},
  title = {A taxonomy of (mathematics) educational opportunity},
  year = {2024},
  journal = {Prometeica},
  volume = {31},
  publisher = {Universidade Federal de São Paulo},
  doi = {10.34024/prometeica.2024.31.16403},
  language = {en}
}

RIS

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