The Social Network of US National Math Education
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Title
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The Social Network of US National Math Education
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Identifier
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d_2009_2013:da1b4c1693da:11223
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identifier
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11616
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Creator
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Wolfmeyer, Mark,
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Contributor
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Joel Spring
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Date
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2012
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Education policy | Mathematics education | Educational sociology | math education | politics | social network
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Abstract
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This dissertation investigates the emerging US national math education, its curriculum and purpose, with respect to the individuals and organizations comprising its social network. National math education means two things: a circumstance in which all students across the US are offered primarily the same instruction from among mathematical topics, and a process whose outcome is in the national interest. The method of inquiry relies on a new perspective of governance in which social networks operate among official governing structures. Upon constructing a representative social network surrounding US national math education, the following interests were found: developing a national math education that enhances the productivity of US workers, advocacy for either a traditional or reform mathematics pedagogy, improving the content knowledge of US math teachers, and a national math education that fuels an education services industry. Taken together, these interests undermine each other and are argued to fail at national math education's purported objective, namely, to increase the knowledge and use of mathematics by persons living in the US.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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2009_2013.csv
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degree
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Ph.D.
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Program
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Urban Education
