The Cultural Production of Racial Narratives about Asian Americans in Mathematics

Autor/inn/en	Wu, Shelley Yijung; Battey, Dan
Titel	The Cultural Production of Racial Narratives about Asian Americans in Mathematics
Quelle	In: Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 52 (2021) 5, S.581-614 (34 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0021-8251
DOI	10.5951/jresematheduc-2020-0122
Schlagwörter	Ethnography; Immigrants; Chinese Americans; Mathematics Education; Models; Minority Group Students; Mathematics Achievement; Kindergarten; Elementary Secondary Education; Parent Child Relationship; Parent Attitudes; Track System (Education); Racial Attitudes; Elementary School Curriculum; Student Attitudes; Asian American Students + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ethnografie; Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; Asian immigrant; Chinese; United States; Asiatischer Einwanderer; Chinesen; USA; Mathematische Bildung; Analogiemodell; Mathmatics sikills; Mathmatics achievement; Mathematical ability; Mathematische Kompetenz; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Elternverhalten; Leistungsgruppe; Leistungsdifferenzierung; Rassenfrage; Schülerverhalten; Student; Students; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin
Abstract	Although considerable literature illustrates how students' experiences and identities are racialized in mathematics education, little attention has been given to Asian American students. Employing ethnographic methods, this study followed 10 immigrant Chinese-heritage families to explore how the racial narrative of the model minority myth was locally produced in mathematics education. We draw on constructs of racial narratives and cultural production to identify the local production of the narrative "Asians are smart and good at math" during K-12 schooling. Specifically, the Asian American students (re)produced racial narratives related to three cultural resources: (a) Their immigrant parents' narratives about the U.S. elementary school mathematics curriculum; (b) the school mathematics student tracking system; and (c) students' locally generated racial narratives about what being Asian means. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01