Identifying socially just pedagogies
Name three different factors that extend beyond cultural ethnicity and that may affect or marginalise students' equitable access to mathematics. Explain how the factors may change students' student engagement. Briefly, outline how you might address each factor in a socially just pedagogy. Lack of connections between school mathematics and students’ lives. Socio economic status Free market, schools being in competition resulting in symbolic violence. According to Jorgensen, Gates, and Roper (2014), schools are failing some students as a result of the structure of the educational system by reinforcing social segregation for non dominant groups. This is occurring by prioritising the values of dominant groups and marginalizing other forms of intelligence as a result of the effects of the free market approach to education. Curriculum practices are structured to marginalise particular social and cultural groups, they suffer through symbolic violence by becomi...