Professional Skills for Graduate Students, Winter 2017 AAPT Meeting
Speakers: Joel Corbo, Angela Little & Adrienne Traxler | PER Consortium of Graduate Students
Overview Pieces on Research on Race:
Parks, A. N., & Schmeichel, M. (2012). Obstacles to addressing race and ethnicity in the mathematics education literature. Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 43(3), 238-252.
Harper, S. R. (2012). Race without racism: How higher education researchers minimize racist institutional norms. The Review of Higher Education, 36(1), 9-29.
Coming soon (2017): Martin, D.M., Anderson, C.R., Shah, N. Race and Mathematics Education.
This is a best practices guide for research on race and mathematics education, coming out in a mathematics education handbook chapter later in 2017.
Physics/Astronomy/STEM History & Culture
Sharon Traweek. Beamtimes and Lifetimes: The World of High Energy Physicists. Cambridge: Harvard University Press (1988).
Elaine Seymour and Nancy M. Hewett. Talking about Leaving: Why Undergraduates Leave the Sciences. Boulder: Westview Press (1997).
Jeff Schmidt. Disciplined Minds: A Critical Look at Salaried Professionals and the Soul-battering System that Shapes their Lives. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield (2000).
Schiebinger, Londa. 2001. Has Feminism Changed Science? Cambridge, Mass.; London: Harvard University Press.
John Asher Johnson’s Blog: http://mahalonottrash.blogspot.com/
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein’s Blog: https://medium.com/@chanda
Women in Astronomy blog: http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/
Astronomy in Color blog: http://astronomyincolor.blogspot.com/
Social Justice in Education
Paulo Freire. Pedagogy of the Oppressed. New York: Continuum (1993).
Angela Calabrese Barton. Teaching Science for Social Justice. New York: Teachers College Press (2003).
bell hooks. Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom. New York: Routledge (1994).
Education
Gould, S. J. (1996). The mismeasure of man. WW Norton & Company.
Nelson, C. E. (2010). Dysfunctional illusions of rigor: Lessons from the scholarship of teaching and learning. To improve the academy: Resources for faculty, instructional, and organizational development, 28, 177-192.
Oppression in the United States & Mechanisms for Understanding Bias
Banaji, M. R., & Greenwald, A. G. (2016). Blindspot: Hidden biases of good people. Bantam.
Claude M. Steele. Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do. New York: W. W. Norton & Company (2010).
Jean Halley, Amy Eshleman, and Ramya Mahadevan Vijaya. Seeing White: An Introduction to White Privilege and Race. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield (2011).
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva. Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield (2006).
Beverly Daniel Tatum. Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria: And Other Conversations About Race. New York: Basic Books (1997).
Robin DiAngelo. “White Fragility.” International Journal of Critical Pedagogy, Vol 3 (3) (2011), pp 54-70.
Robin DiAngelo. “Nothing to Add: A Challenge to White Silence in Racial Discussions.” Understanding & Dismantling Privilege, Vol II, Issue I, February 2012.
Sue, D. W., Capodilupo, C. M., Torino, G. C., Bucceri, J. M., Holder, A., Nadal, K. L., & Esquilin, M. (2007). Racial microaggressions in everyday life: implications for clinical practice. American psychologist, 62(4), 271.
Frameworks for Thinking about Equity
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. “The Danger of a Single Story.” TEDGlobal 2009. https://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story
Camara Phyllis Jones. “Levels of Racism: A Theoretic Framework and a Gardener’s Tale.” American Journal of Public Health 90.8 (2000), 1212–1215.
Camara Phyllis Jones. “Allegories on Race and Racism.” TEDxEmory. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNhcY6fTyBM
“Tornado Warning: Four Roles of Social Change.” https://www.trainingforchange.org/tools/tornado-warning-four-roles-social-change-0
“White Supremacy Culture.” http://www.cwsworkshop.org/PARC_site_B/dr-culture.html (Note that this page has errors in formatting such that “Only One Right Way” is combined with “”Worship of the Written Word” and “I’m the Only One” is combined with “Individualism”)
Racial Discourse in U.S. Culture and its Connection to Everyday Math Classroom Moments
Shah, N. (2013). Racial Discourse in Mathematics and Its Impact on Student Learning, Identity, and Participation. Dissertation.
Some recommended excerpts:
Chapter 1 (2 page excerpt): Intro - Pgs 1-2
Chapter 2 (2 page excerpt): Pg 19 from "Mathematical Performance & Intelligence" to Pg 21, stop before "Summary"
Chapter 5 (8 page excerpt): Sources of Racial-Mathematical Discourse - Pgs 60-68
Chapter 6 (full): Racialized Episodes in Mathematics Learning Settings Pgs 74-90
Organizational Change
Adrianna Kezar. How Colleges Change: Understanding, Leading, and Enacting Change. New York: Routledge (2014).
Edgar H. Schein. Organizational Culture and Leadership. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass (2010).