Co-Integrate Mathematics Series: Dominguez/Research Group Presenting on November 14th
You are cordially invited to attend the Co-Integrate Math Seminar Series talk on Monday,
November 14, 2022 from 1:30-2:30 pm in 115 Erickson in the CREATE Seminar space. Higinio Dominguez (PI), teacher Tina Haselius, and two graduate research assistants,
Sofía Abreu and Melvin Peralta will talk about their research: Animating Mathematical Concepts..(and the learning of teachers, students, and researchers)
Monday, November 14, 2022
1:30-2:30 p.m.
115 Erickson Hall
ABSTRACT: Mathematics education research is overwhelmingly assimilationist in its desire to change people, teachers, students, researchers, instead of changing the mathematics. In this teaching-research collaboration, one teacher (Tina Haselius), two graduate research assistants (Sofía Abreu and Melvin Peralta), and one mathematics education researcher (Higinio Dominguez) will share their emerging experiences learning how to animate mathematical concepts. While one key goal in our collaboration has been to resist the violence of trying to change, assimilate, and colonize learners, the process of animating mathematical concepts has, in beautiful and nonviolent ways, allowed us to experience change in and among ourselves as we learn to (co)respond to the animacy and agency of the mathematical concepts that we set out to animate in our teaching-research group.
BIO: Higinio Dominguez is an associate professor in the Teacher Preparation Program of the College of Education at Michigan State University. Across the three areas of research, teaching and service, Higinio has been exploring the mobilization of saberes—diverse ways of knowing—that matter in the multicultural, multiliterate and multilingual lives of students, teachers and families from less-dominant communities. These saberes constitute a tremendous potential for transformative research. Higinio's scholarly work has been published in many research and practitioners’ journals, including Educational Studies in Mathematics, Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education, Teaching Children Mathematics and Bilingual Research Journal.
Co-Integrate is a speaker series, jointly sponsored by the CREATE for STEM Institute and the Program in Mathematics Education, designed to support internal networking among colleagues in the College of Natural
Science, College of Education, and K-12 school partners interested in the teaching
and learning of mathematics in K-16 settings. This series features talks by MSU faculty
and graduate students who are working on projects to improve math teaching and learning
at MSU and in Michigan more broadly.
The Co-Integrate Seminar Series welcomes local K-12 teachers and administrators to
all of its events.
