Category: theories
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Research Breakdown: What is different in math research for students with and without disabilities; an article that took 8 years to get published!
To call this a new article is a bit of a stretch. I first started writing this article in 2013. I planned to write a Research Commentary for JRME (a fancy math ed journal) on what I saw as the stark differences between 1) math ed research and 2) special…
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Research Breakdown: My article on how disability in mathematics is political, relational, emotional and complexly embodied (Lambert, 2019)
Part of my intention with this blog is to provide access for a wide audience on research into disability in the context of mathematics. Research is too inaccessible; hard to get the articles and hard to understand them even when you do get your hands on them! Today I want…
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Constructivism is a theory of learning, not of labeling
I deeply believe that knowledge is constructed in relationship to what we already know. Understanding means constructing a web of connections, ideas, experiences, etc. So I am certainly a constructivist in mathematics, although I tend to see individual children as learning through not only their own experience, but through engagement…
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Concrete Representational Abstract (CRA) in mathematics
In response to a Twitter inquiry, I decided to write up some longstanding thoughts on the Concrete Representational Abstract (CRA) sequence that is popular particularly in designing instruction for learners with disabilities. First, what is CRA? Here, from a researcher who done several studies on CRA with students with disabilities…
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Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
Universal Design for Learning (CAST, 2011) was inspired by Universal Design in architecture. If you design for people with disabilities before you built the house, it can be more accessible, less expensive, and more beautiful. UDL applies that theory to learning. Beginning with the premise that variability is what all…
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Quick Theory Post #2: Neurodiversity
Neurodiversity grew out of the work of autistic self-advocates, or autistic people who identify as activists. Here is a definition from an interview with a neurodiversity activist you can read in full here. Neurodiversity, the word, simply means the whole variety of different brain wirings people have…from the different kinds…
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Quick Theory Post #1: Disability Studies in Education
Disability Studies in Education (DSE) developed out of Disability Studies (DS), which is an interdisciplinary academic field that questions what meaning is made of difference. Simi Linton, a DS scholar, writes, Disability studies takes for its subject matter not simply the variations that exist in human behavior, appearance, functioning, sensory…
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