Webinar Series
Humanizing Disabilities in Math Education: An Intersectional Justice Approach
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The MƒA Equity Webinars Series invites nationally recognized educators to share ideas that support equity within STEM. Following an interactive presentation by the speaker, Master Teachers have the opportunity to discuss how these ideas might be applied in their own school environments in small groups. Teachers from MƒA, other Master Teacher programs, and people interested in learning more about MƒA are invited to attend.
Historically, disabled students have been dehumanized in education, and particularly so in research and practice related to mathematics. Typically in school, they are only offered access to low-rigor mathematics emphasizing rote procedures and narrow skills, and are often segregated physically and socially from their non-disabled peers. Educators are crucial to the humanization of disabled students via anti-ableist and antiracist work toward systemic transformation. In this presentation, Drs. Padilla and Tan share how an intersectional justice approach is crucial in humanizing mathematics education for and with disabled students.
Dr. Paulo Tan is a Lecturer in the School of Education at Johns Hopkins University whose research focuses on advancing intersectional equity and justice in and through mathematics education centering disabilities.
Dr. Alexis Padilla is a blind brown Latinx engaged scholar and activist currently affiliated with Phillips Theological Seminary in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Apart from an emerging interest in intersectional disability theology, Dr. Padilla’s research explores emancipatory learning and radical agency in the context of decolonial Latinx intersectionality and critical disability studies, emphasizing the activist/disability advocacy vantage point combined with actionable dimensions of inclusive equity research and practice.