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Learning Mathematics Within and Across School and Home Contexts Kara Jackson, Vanderbilt University (Click name for speaker's biography) Dr. Kara Jackson will present an argument for the importance of attending to processes of social identification and socialization within and across contexts when accounting for the learning of mathematics. To make the argument, Dr. Jackson will compare two fifth graders' mathematical learning trajectories over the course of a year. Both children were African American, grew up in the same neighborhood and attended the same schools, yet they experienced the learning of mathematics in distinct ways. The analysis will focus on the deployment of resources (e.g., local ideologies about youth of color, social constructions of mathematics, models of identities, mathematical practices) that organized the children's learning of mathematics in different contexts. Dr. Jackson will discuss the implications of framing processes of social identification and socialization as integral to the learning of mathematics for teacher education and mathematics education research.
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