In this episode, DES co-host Paulo Tan shares a practical application of abolitionist mathematics practices. This episode is a companion to episode #13 where Paulo laid out the groundwork for abolitionist mathematics practices. It is helpful but not necessary to first engage with episode #13 before engaging with this current episode. The practical application Paulo shares is one of infinite possibilities of abolitionist mathematics practices. Paulo shares this practical idea in the context of elementary mathematics teacher education.  

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In this episode, DES co-host Paulo Tan shares a presentation he recently completed on abolitionist mathematics practices at Purdue University. Drawing on Black Feminist thought on prison abolition, Dr. Tan forwards three crucial tenets (i.e., imagining utopian futures, intersectional struggles, and immediate change making) to guide the fields of special and mathematics education. Dr. Tan argues that these tenets are necessary to eliminate harms disabled students encounter in special and mathematics education while collectively building more just futures. Situating this argument in elementary schooling contexts, Dr. Tan implicates mathematics education in its complicity and perpetuation of containment, a form of incarceration that denies opportunities to certain disabled students. As such, Dr. Tan calls on educational researchers and practitioners to take up leadership in this disability freedom struggle. 

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Books mentioned: Abolition. Feminism. Now.

Decarcerating Disability: Deinstutionalization and Prison Abolition

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We turn inwards for today’s episode in a conversation with Dr. Alexis Padilla, this show’s cohost, about his upcoming book titled Decolonial Disability and Social Epistemologies. The first chapter of his book dives into the problems with how we think of productive struggle. We also engage in a brief reflection on the first few months after launching the Disability, Education, and Society podcast. Transcripts for this episode can be found here.  

Mentioned in this episode: Dr. Padilla's first book titled Disability, Intersectional Agency, and Latinx Identity Theorizing LatDisCrit Counterstories

Dr. Padilla's email: [email protected]

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Dr. Alison Mirin, a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Mathematics Education at the University of Arizona, joins the DES podcast to discuss ableism and inaccessibility in mathematics education. We discuss the disconnect between how math is typically taught in schools and how students make their own meaning of math. Dr. Mirin shares her mathematics experiences as a researcher, a disabled student, and a former secondary classroom teacher.  Transcripts can be found here.

Mentioned in the show: Academic Spoonies Facebook group, Dr. Mirin’s ResearchGate page, and Mathematics Educator Appreciation Day (MEAD), American Educational Research Association’s (AERA) press release on disparities in special education referrals, and Building Thinking Classrooms.  

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In this episode, we are joined by Dr. Fernanda Malinosky who is a professor in the Mathematics Institute at Mato Grosso do Sul Federal University in Brazil. We discuss issues of education and clientelism, and inclusive educational perspectives in the Brazilian context. Transcripts can be found here.

Dr. Malinosky’s Mathematics Education, Diversity and Difference Research Group: https://sites.google.com/view/grupogedumat-ufms/about-us?authuser=0,Instagram @grupogedumad

Mentioned in the episode: Dr. Beatriz D'Ambrosio 

Journal Article titled "Exclusion and inclusion processes in mathematics classrooms: Reflections on difference, normality and cultural issues within three different contexts"

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In this episode, we are joined by Dr. Anna Stetsenko who is a full Professor in the PhD Program in Psychology (and the chair of Developmental Psychology), with a joint appointment in Urban Education Program, both at The Graduate Center, the City University of New York. We discuss Dr. Stetsenko’s conception of Activist‑Transformative Methodology and its role in addressing social and environmental crisis in the context of education. Transcripts to this episode can be found here.  

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Dr. Stetenko's email: [email protected]

In this episode, we our joined by Dr. Lisette E. Torres-Gerald, a scientist and disabled scholar-activist and Senior Researcher at TERC, a non-profit made up of teams of mathematics and science education and research experts. We discuss Dr. Torres-Gerald's advocacy work with Latinx Disabilities within and beyond the United States as well as in formal and informal STEM educational contexts. Transcripts to this episode can be found here.  

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Dr. Torres-Gerald's website: https://www.informalscience.org/ ; Twitter:  https://twitter.com/lisetteetorres3?lang=en; LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisette-torres-gerald-15721084

Sines of Disability: https://sinesofdisability.com/

Science for the People: https://scienceforthepeople.org/

Offir Romero Castro joins the podcast to discuss his experiences living with a disability and his work in promoting inclusive mathematics education. Offir is currently a teaching and research assistant in the Mathematics Department at Western Michigan University, where he is also a Mathematics Education 2nd year-Ph.D. student. Transcripts to this episode can be found here.  

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Offir's ResearchGate page

In this part II episode, we continue our conversion with Dr. Parrey. We dive into topics of ableism, disability studies, relationality, and thinking-feeling disability. Dr. Parrey shares a couple of powerful counterstories characterized as eventful events. Transcripts to this episode can be found here.

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Mentioned in the episode:

EWU Disability Studies Facebook Page

Dr. Parrey's article in Disability Studies Quarterly titled Being Disoriented: Uncertain Encounters with Disability

Dr. Parrey's article in Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies titled Embracing Disorientation in the Disability Studies Classroom

Robin D. G. Kelley's book titled Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination

In this episode, Dr. Parrey discusses moments in which the meaning of disability, and our relation to it, is an open question. We dive into topics of ableism, disability studies, relationality, and thinking-feeling disability. Dr. Parrey shares a couple of powerful counterstories characterized as eventful events. Transcripts to this episode can be found here.

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Mentioned in the episode:

EWU Disability Studies Facebook Page

Dr. Parrey's article in Disability Studies Quarterly titled Being Disoriented: Uncertain Encounters with Disability

Dr. Parrey's article in Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies titled Embracing Disorientation in the Disability Studies Classroom

Robin D. G. Kelley's book titled Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination