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all knowledge is “relational,” asserting that “Things cannot be known objectively; they must be known subjectively."
But she is not liberal (Liberalism is a political philosophy or worldview founded on ideas of liberty and equality.) She is Marxist and more precisely Maoist, a cultural revolution. Economic Marxism failed horribly, so lets try cultural Marxism.
Reality must adapt and if we need to lower the bar in math, so be it.
A math education professor at the University
Gutierrez has earned a Ph.D., Curriculum and Instruction, from the University of Chicago, 1995, an M.A., Curriculum and Instruction, from the University of Chicago, 1995, and a B.A., Human Biology, from Stanford University, 1990.
So for example, communists would insist people MUST be equal, regardless of whether they are or not. They killed millions trying to force their notion of fairness onto reality.
Rochelle Gutierrez, a professor at the University of Illinois, made the claim in a new anthology for math teachers, arguing that teachers must be aware of the “politics that mathematics brings” in society.
“On many levels, mathematics itself operates as Whiteness. Who gets credit for doing and developing mathematics, who is capable in mathematics, and who is seen as part of the mathematical community is generally viewed as White,” Gutierrez argued.
Gutierrez also worries that algebra and geometry perpetuate privilege, fretting that “curricula emphasizing terms like Pythagorean theorem and pi perpetuate a perception that mathematics was largely developed by Greeks and other Europeans."
Math also helps actively perpetuate white privilege too, since the way our economy places a premium on math skills gives math a form of “unearned privilege” for math professors, who are disproportionately white.
“Are we really that smart just because we do mathematics?” she asks, further wondering why math professors get more research grants than “social studies or English” professors.
Further, she also worries that evaluations of math skills can perpetuate discrimination against minorities, especially if they do worse than their white counterparts.
“If one is not viewed as mathematical, there will always be a sense of inferiority that can be summoned,” she says, adding that there are so many minorities who “have experienced microaggressions from participating in math classrooms… [where people are] judged by whether they can reason abstractly.”
To fight this, Gutierrez encourages aspiring math teachers to develop a sense of “political conocimiento,” a Spanish phrase for “political knowledge for teaching.”
Gutierrez stresses that all knowledge is “relational,” asserting that “Things cannot be known objectively; they must be known subjectively."
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