101. UNEARTHING THE KNOWLEDGE OF MATHEMATICS TEACHER EDUCATOR MOTHERS: JOURNEYING FROM DEHUMANIZATION TO POWER.
- Author
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Ward, Jennifer, Vomvoridi-Ivanovic, Eugenia, and Lauer, Sarah vanIngen
- Subjects
MATHEMATICS teachers ,TEACHER educators ,FEMINISM ,MOTHERHOOD in literature ,MOTHERS - Abstract
While dialoguing around our collective experiences as academic mothers in mathematics education, we found several overlapping experiences and emotions in connection with our academic mother identities, along with narratives we heard about motherhood in academia. Drawing from background literature on motherhood in academia and matricentric feminist theory, we engaged in a collective reflection to examine and reflect upon the knowledge gained through our roles as academic mothers in mathematics education. In this reflection, we present how collective reflection helped to generate the knowledge we carry as mathematics teacher educators. This knowledge, we found, is directly linked to our roles and emotional experiences as academic mothers, thereby signifying the need to make our motherwork visible in academic spaces. Moreover, this process provided space for us to develop power in our academic mother roles to benefit ourselves and our students. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2023