Students positioned as leaders thickened an “agents of change” identity by using surveys, data, and graphs to convince others, including teachers¶
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q2 i? Cathy and Iris used survey data and graphs to persuade audiences (peers, teachers, principal, school council), and their leader identities thickened into “agents of change.” → Takeuchi 2020
Evidence¶
Takeuchi 2020¶
Takeuchi, M.A. (2020). Geopolitical configuration of identities and learning: Othering through the institutionalized categorization of “English language learners. Cognition and Instruction. Advance online publication https://doi.org/10.1080/07370008.2020.1825438
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Case analysis of two focal students in the ethnographic video study. Cathy presented a double bar graph comparing teacher and student responses to the principal; Iris presented survey results on recess activities. Their suggestions appeared as action items in school council minutes, and they later served as Peace Leaders and Play Leaders.
"For Iris and Cathy, their “leader” identities were thickened through the transforming recess unit and they became “agents of change” as they used surveys, data, numbers, and graphs to convince others, including teachers."
Discussion¶
Learner Variables¶
- Identity — outcome: instruction changes it
Related Claims¶
- Opportunities to gain the agentive identity of “agents of change” are intertwined with a macro- and meso-level geopolitical matrix of power — related
- When students argue to reach consensus rather than to convince or persuade, they commit to understanding and integrating others' ideas — related
- The institutionalized “ELL” label positioned labelled students as the Other, depriving them of access to agentive participation in the unit — related
- Categorical and binary frameworks inscribed in the mathematics curriculum served as a context for reproducing existing categories through student surveys and graphs — related
- Community-based mathematical investigations gave students confidence to use mathematics for social change — a broader claim this one bears on
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Students positioned as leaders thickened an “agents of change” identity by using surveys, data, and graphs to convince others, including teachers |
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Students positioned as leaders thickened an “agents of change” identity by using surveys, data, and graphs to convince others, including teachers |
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