In this paper, we respond to the continued harm of deficit discourses in mathematics
education, focusing on discourses that systematically devalue the knowledge and abilities of …

A deficit perspective is a propensity to locate the source of academic problems in
deficiencies within students, their families, their communities, or their membership in social …

Education researchers have long wrestled with the interplay of oppressive structures and
individual agency in reproducing, sustaining, and contesting marginalization. In this article …

Noticing the strengths in students' mathematical thinking is a critical skill that teachers need
to develop, but it can be challenging due to the prevalence of deficit-based thinking in …

Teacher solidarity co-design is a special case of participatory design research that
emphasizes the unique power dynamics of partnering with teachers who are multiply …

Public media both reflects and shapes societal perceptions and attitudes. Teachers and
others around students in mathematics classrooms have expectations for the students …

In this conceptual paper, the author argues that equity research in mathematics education is
a genre that operates according to certain implicit ideological and rhetorical rules and …

Many teacher activists engage in justice-oriented work within and outside their classrooms,
yet the work of mathematics teacher activists has been understudied. In this qualitative …

Attending to student sense-making and enacting asset-based approaches to mathematics
teaching are becoming a more central focus of mathematics teacher education. Less …

ABSTRACT In New Zealand and internationally, diverse groups of people are under-
represented in mathematics. Disrupting deficit discourses requires educators to recognise …