(07-06-2024, 06:01 PM)Propagandhim wrote: Good lord. This is the most implicitly demoralizing shit ever. All these kids need to hear is that they're the same as everyone else, and there's a cottage industry of opportunist pseudo-academics sabotaging them.I preferred the math guy:
Quote: He also works to transform STEM learning environments, creating spaces that are recognized and understood as extensions of students’ identity rather than sites of oppression that perpetuate hostility and exclusion.
Oh brother. Just the burden a kid needs to take on when they're already trying to work through figuring out calculus. If white privilege exists, it's the privilege to not have to have all these assholes provide a reason to second guess your ability to learn and succeed in the same way everyone else can without a unique set of mythical resources.
Quote:Ortiz is a mathematics teacher educator and researcher whose research interests deal with Black/African-American students and the impact that teachers have on these students’ performance and appreciation for mathematics. He is very much interested in how ontological Blackness is manifested and/or stifled during high-quality mathematics instruction that involves, for example, teaching for conceptual understanding and utilizing mathematics discourse, as well as identifying new and innovative ways for Black children to demonstrate the mathematics proficiency that already exists within. His scholarship deals with these issues, centering the brilliance of Black children in mathematics as an irrefutable reality. Ortiz is also a musician and loves everything from Gladys Knight to J. Cole, and utilizes music and Black vernacular in his approach to culturally relevant mathematics pedagogy.