Students’ Critical Awareness of Voice and Agency in Mathematics Classroom Discourse
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Abstract
This account of my extended conversation with a high school mathematics class focuses on voice and agency. As an investigation of possibilities opened up by introducing mathematics students to what Fairclough (1992) Fairclough, N. 1992. Critical language awareness, London: Longman. [Google Scholar] called “critical language awareness” (p. 2), I prompted the students daily to become ever more aware of their language practices in class. The tensions in this conversation proved parallel to the tension in mathematics between individual initiative and convention, a tension that Pickering (1995) Pickering, A. 1995. The mangle of practice: Time, agency, and science, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. [Crossref] , [Google Scholar] called the “dance of agency” (p. 21). Participant students in this classroom-based research resisted the idea of linguistic reference to human agency, although their actual language practice revealed some recognition of human agency.
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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