Living Culturally Responsive Mathematics Education With/In Indigenous Communities

Living Culturally Responsive Mathematics Education with/in Indigenous Communities explores challenges and possibilities across international contexts, involving Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars, teachers and Elders responding to calls for improved education for all Indigenous students. Authors from Australia, New Zealand, United States, Micronesia, and Canada explore the nature of culturally responsive mathematics education. Chapters highlight the importance of relationships with communities and the land, each engaging critically with ideas of culturally responsive education, exploring what this stance might mean and how it is lived in local contexts within global conversations. Education researchers and teacher educators will find a living pathway where scholars, educators, youth and community members critically take-up culturally responsive teachings and the possibilities and challenges that arise along the journey.

Contributors are: Dayle Anderson, Dora Andre-Ihrke, Jo-ann Archibald Q’um Q’um Xiiem, Maria Jose Athie-Martinez, Robin Averill, Trevor Bills, Beatriz A. Camacho, A. J. (Sandy) Dawson, Dwayne Donald, Herewini Easton, Tauvela Fale, Amanda Fritzlan, Florence Glanfield, Jodie Hunter, Roberta Hunter, Newell Margaret Johnson, Julie Kaomea, Robyn Jorgensen, Jerry Lipka, Lisa Lunney Borden, Dora Miura, Sharon Nelson-Barber, Cynthia Nicol, Gladys Sterenberg, Marama Taiwhati, Pania Te Maro, Jennifer S. Thom, David Wagner, Evelyn Yanez, and Joanne Yovanovich.

Cynthia Nicol is Associate Professor, University of British Columbia, Canada and holds the David F. Robitaille Professor in Mathematics and Science Education. She publishes and presents on mathematics teacher education, social justice, refugee education, and Indigenous education.

Jo-ann Archibald Q’um Q’um Xiiem is from the Stó lō and St’at’imc First Nations in British Columbia and Professor Emeritus, Educational Studies, University of British Columba, Canada. She is author of Indigenous Storywork: Educating the Heart, Mind, Body and Spirit (UBC Press, 2008).

Florence Glanfield is Professor of Mathematics Education in the Department of Secondary Education, University of Alberta, Canada and Member of the Métis Nation, Alberta. She publishes in areas of mathematics education, teacher education, relational inquires, Indigenous perspectives and complexity science.

A. J. (Sandy) Dawson was Professor Emeritus and faculty member at the University of Hawaii Mānoa College of Education, USA. He began the internationally recognized Mathematics and Culture in Micronesia: Integrating Societal Experiences (MACIMISE) collaborative research project.