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Rochelle Gutierrez's scholarship focuses on issues of identity and power in mathematics education, with particular attention to race, class, and language. She conducts in-depth analyses of effective teaching and learning communities through longitudinal studies of practicing teachers. Dr. Gutierrez's work challenges deficit views of Latinx, Black, and Indigenous students, arguing that mathematics teachers must possess not only content knowledge but also pedagogical knowledge and an understanding of their diverse students for effective teaching. Her current research projects emphasize developing pre-service teachers' knowledge and disposition to teach mathematics successfully to urban students. Additionally, she explores the roles of uncertainty, tensions, and the concept of 'Nepantla' in teaching, along with the political knowledge necessary for mathematics teachers to 'rehumanize' mathematics in the current high-stakes education landscape. Dr. Gutierrez builds on Indigenous principles to argue for a new form of mathematics that is centered on human experiences, termed 'living mathematx.'
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