RUME 27
2025
Alexandria, Virginia
Exploring Women-Identifying Graduate Students’ Values Related to Teaching and Learning Mathematics
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Graduate students’ values related to teaching and learning are critical in shaping their professional identities and future careers as faculty members. These values encapsulate instructors’ convictions about what is important or worthwhile as it relates to mathematics teaching and learning. Research suggests that mathematical discourses reflect and empower dominant masculine values. Thus, we explore three women-identifying graduate students’ values related to teaching and learning mathematics to highlight their voices and emphasize ways in which their values align with or challenge dominant masculine values. Utilizing interview data, we found four values across the three participants: collaboration, student-instructor perceptions, humanizing mathematics, and compassion and care for students’ wellbeing. We discuss how these values interact with dominant masculine mathematical discourses and the ways in which these values may help foster equitable mathematics pedagogy.