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Positioning and Positioned Apart: Mathematics Learning as Becoming Undesirable
Author(s) -
SenguptaIrving Tesha
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
anthropology and education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1548-1492
pISSN - 0161-7761
DOI - 10.1111/aeq.12378
Subject(s) - neoliberalism (international relations) , capitalism , sociology , class (philosophy) , position (finance) , social class , adjudication , mathematics education , epistemology , social science , political science , law , mathematics , economics , politics , philosophy , finance
Neoliberal logics, a form of racial capitalism, adjudicate children as smart, able, and desirable (or not) in schools. I explore the social processes and structural arrangements by which such logics position a Latina mathematics student as “undesirable” in her class. Drawing on data collected over a year, the analysis lays bare how undesirability is both a requirement of neoliberalism and an emergent position that she, her low‐track class, and her school come to occupy.