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ERIC Number: EJ1053681
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2015-Mar
Pages: 14
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-1033-2170
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Linear Equations and Rap Battles: How Students in a Wired Classroom Utilized the Computer as a Resource to Coordinate Personal and Mathematical Positional Identities in Hybrid Spaces
Langer-Osuna, Jennifer
Mathematics Education Research Journal, v27 n1 p51-64 Mar 2015
This paper draws on the constructs of hybridity, figured worlds, and cultural capital to examine how a group of African-American students in a technology-driven, project-based algebra classroom utilized the computer as a resource to coordinate personal and mathematical positional identities during group work. Analyses of several vignettes of small group dynamics highlight how hybridity was established as the students engaged in multiple on-task and off-task computer-based activities, each of which drew on different lived experiences and forms of cultural capital. The paper ends with a discussion on how classrooms that make use of student-led collaborative work, and where students are afforded autonomy, have the potential to support the academic engagement of students from historically marginalized communities.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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