Journal of Urban Mathematics Education December 2018, Vol. 11, No. 1&2, pp. 1–6 ©JUME. http://education.gsu.edu/JUME DAVID W. STINSON is Professor of Mathematics Education in the Department of Middle and Secondary Education in the College of Education and Human Development, at Georgia State Uni- versity, P.O. Box 3978, Atlanta, GA, 30303; e-mail: dstinson@gsu.edu. His research interests in- clude exploring socio-cultural, -historical, and -political aspects of mathematics and mathematics teaching and learning from a critical postmodern theoretical (and methodological) perspective. He is a co-founder and current editor in chief of the Journal of Urban Mathematics Education. EDITORIAL Celebrating a Decade of Critical Mathematics Education Knowledge Dissemination: A Movement of People Revolutionaries David W. Stinson Georgia State University cholar and public intellectual Michelle Alexander (2018) recently cautioned about the uncritical use of the term resistance in her debut The New York Times op-ed essay, “We Are Not the Resistance.” As defiable national and international events have unfolded at an escalating pace in the past two years or so, she argues that although there is power in numbers in the resistance there are downsides as well: But the time may have come to take the downsides [of resistance] more seriously. Re- sistance is a reactive state of mind. While it can be necessary for survival and to prevent catastrophic harm, it can also tempt us to set our sights too low and to restrict our field of vision … leading us to forget our ultimate purpose and place in history. … Viewed from the broad sweep of history, … [they are] the resistance. We are not. Those of us who are committed to the radical evolution of American democracy are not merely resisting an unwanted reality. To the contrary, the struggle for human freedom and dignity extend back centuries and is likely to continue for generations to come.… A new nation is struggling to be born, a multiracial, multiethnic, multifaith, egalitarian democracy in which every life and every voice truly matters.… Every leap forward for American democracy—from slavery’s abolition to women’s suf- frage to minimum-wage laws to the Civil Rights Acts to gay marriage—has been tracea- ble to the revolutionary river [of people], not the resistance. In fact, the whole of Ameri- can history can be described as a struggle between those who truly embrace the revolutionary idea of freedom, equality and justice for all and those who resisted. (para. 8–17) With local, national, and international events occurring daily (some days, it seems hourly) that go against the fundamental ideals of decency and humanity which I was taught as a child, I have continued to think about Alexander’s essay that outlines the difference between those who are revolutionaries and those who are resisters. Her words certainly have come to the fore as I have been thinking about writing this, my last editorial for the Journal of Urban Mathematics Education (JUME) after a decade S http://education.gsu.edu/JUME mailto:dstinson@gsu.edu Stinson Editorial Journal of Urban Mathematics Education Vol. 11, No. 1&2 2 as editor in chief. I am proud to proclaim here that this special double issue which marks a decade of critical1 mathematics education knowledge dissemination, in actu- ality, marks a decade of a movement of people—a movement of revolutionaries. The revolutionary spirit of JUME was unquestionably present in the six articles published in the inaugural JUME issue on December 11, 2008. Those articles are re- published in this special double issue,2 with each proceeded by a follow-up essay, if you will, a decade later written by at least one of the authors revolutionaries of the original article.3 That revolutionary spirit which was present in each inaugural article is again unquestionably present in the follow-up essays published here. All in all, JUME was born, so to speak, out of a revolutionary spirit. Lou Mat- thews (2008), the founding editor in chief, in his inaugural editorial captured that rev- olutionary spirit in his description of the nearly two-year developmental stages of JUME. Developmental stages in which the founding Editorial Team4—the founding revolutionaries—worked through the start-up logistics of a peer-reviewed, online journal; speculated about its long-term sustainability; and struggled with the multiple meanings of “urban.” Ultimately, we collectively decided on a mission statement that guided our work then and continued to guide the work of subsequent Editorial Teams (i.e., subsequent revolutionaries): To foster a transformative global academic space in mathematics that embraces critical research, emancipatory pedagogy, and scholarship of engagement in urban communities. 1 Critical is used here in the critical theoretical sense. Bronner (2011), in providing a definition of sorts of critical theory, writes: Critical theory refuses to identify freedom with any institutional arrangement or fixed system of thought. It questions the hidden assumptions and purposes of com- peting theories and existing forms of practice. … Critical theory insists that thought must respond to the new problems and the new possibilities for liberation that arise from changing historical circumstances. Interdisciplinary and uniquely experimental in character, deeply skeptical of tradition and all absolute claims, critical theo- ry…[is] concerned not merely with how things [are] but how they might be and should be. (pp. 1–2) 2 The six inaugural articles are republished in this special double issue as initially made available with only minor formatting and copyediting changes. 3 Each of the inaugural articles has a follow-up essay except for the article written by Pamela L. Paek (2008); unfortunately, she was not able to contribute a follow-up essay, but we honored her contribu- tion to the inaugural issue by republishing her 2008 article here. 4 The original Editorial Team included Lou Matthews, the founding editor in chief, and associate edi- tors Pier Junor Clarke, Ollie Manley, David Stinson (me), and Christine Thomas. Stinson Editorial Journal of Urban Mathematics Education Vol. 11, No. 1&2 3 I now like to think that the transformative global academic space in mathemat- ics created in and through JUME5 has been in resistance neither to the whitestream journals of mathematics education (Gutiérrez, 2011) nor to the institutional space of whiteness of mathematics education (Martin, 2013). But rather, as Alexander (2018) suggests, has been a revolutionary river of people who have understood that “every life and every voice truly matters” (para. 13) and “who truly embrace the revolution- ary idea of freedom, equality and justice for all” (para. 17). For the past decade, I have populated the opening editorial pages of nearly eve- ry JUME issue with what I hoped would be a thought-provoking discussion repre- sentative of the revolutionary spirit of JUME. Here, in my closing editorial, I wish to just simply and humbly thank, by name, the people—the revolutionaries—who brought JUME into existence: the authors, the reviewers, and the editors (see listings below).6 Whatever role or roles one has played throughout the past decade, it has tru- ly been an honor to work with each of you. Both my personal and professional lives have been enriched by the opportunity. My thinking as a mathematics education scholar, researcher, and teacher educator—and, most importantly, my thinking as a human being—has benefitted greatly through the human connections I have had with each of you during my time as editor. In the end, it is always the human connections, the human relationships in which we accumulate throughout our multiplicitous and fragmented lives that actually bring meaning(s) to living. – Thank you for the opportunity to connect! David W. Stinson, Ph.D. Editor in Chief Journal of Urban Mathematics Education June 2009–December 2018 5 To learn more about JUME and its growing impact over the past decade see Journal History under About on the JUME website: http://ed-osprey.gsu.edu/ojs/index.php/JUME. Currently, after more than a decade at Georgia State University, JUME is in search of a new editor in chief, editorial team, and academic home. Check the JUME website periodically for updates to when JUME will resume accept- ing manuscripts for publication consideration. 6 There is another extraordinarily important group of people to thank that, unfortunately, I cannot thank by name: JUME readers/users. With nearly 300,000 web views and counting of JUME content and nearly 1,500 Google Scholar citations and growing exponentially, to thank this group individually is impossible. But it goes without saying, JUME readers/users directly and indirectly have strengthened the revolution. http://ed-osprey.gsu.edu/ojs/index.php/JUME/about/history http://ed-osprey.gsu.edu/ojs/index.php/JUME/about http://ed-osprey.gsu.edu/ojs/index.php/JUME https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=dYb3gM0AAAAJ&hl=en Stinson Editorial JUME Authors Gill Adams Olufunke Adefope Helle Alrø Nathan N. Alexander Charlotte Agger Julia Maria Aguirre Joel Amidon Celia Rousseau Anderson Annica Andersson Cynthia Oropesa Anhalt Glenda Anthony Robin Averill Tamika N. Ball Vanessa Pitts Bannister David Barnes Lorraine M. Baron Tonya Gau Bartell Dan Battey Michael T. Battista Robert Q. Berry, III Kristin Bieda Jo Boaler Gareth Bond John Bragelman Andrew Brantlinger Denise Natasha Brewley M. Lynn Breyfogle Diane J. Briars Kanjana Brodie Liz Brown Viveka A. Brown Victor Brunaud-Vega Erika C. Bullock Jessica Hopson Burbach Susan O. Cannon Robert M. Capraro Matthew G. Caputo Nicole Carignan Iman C. Chahine Egan J. Chernoff Ervin J. China Haiwen Chu Marta Civil Jere Confrey Lesa M. Covington Clarkson Sandra Crespo Helen Crompton Dionne I. Cross Erica R. Davila Julius Davis Ira David Dawson Zandra de Araujo Higinio Dominguez Lesley Dookie Corey Drake Teresa K. Dunleavy Cyndi Edgington Mark W. Ellis Indigo Esmonde Brian R. Evans James Ewing Mathew D. Felton-Koestler Anthony Fernandes Cecilia Henríquez Fernández Mary Q. Foote Deana J. Ford Maisie L. Gholson Laura M. Gilbert Imani Masters Goffney Curtis V. Goings Conrado Gómez Lidia Gonzalez Melva R. Grant Susan A. Gregson Paula Guerra Maura Varley Gutiérrez Rochelle Gutiérrez Eric (Rico) Gutstein Victoria Hand Shelley Sheats Harkness Jacqueline A. Hennings Beth Herbel-Eisenmann Keith E. Howard Rick A. Hudson Roberta Hunter Christopher C. Jett Margarita Jimenez-Silva Kate R. Johnson Mindy Kalchman Signe Kastberg Virginia Keen Lena L. Khisty Lonnie C. King Richard S. Kitchen Jennifer Kosiak Terri L. Kurz Joan Kwako Matt Larson Brian R. Lawler Mi Yeon Lee Okhee Lee Shonda Lemons-Smith Jacqueline Leonard Kate le Roux Chance W. Lewis Luis A. Leyva Woong Lim Pauline Lipman Fiachra Long Dihema Longman Patricia L. Marshal Danny Bernard Martin Lou Edward Matthews Jane McChesney Amy Roth McDuffie Allison W. McCulloch Ebony O. McGee Maggie Lee McHugh Laura McLeman Michelle McNulty Mekyah Q. McQueen Michael Meagher Bryan Meyer Alexia Mintos Jessica Morales-Chicas Crystal H. Morton Judit Moschovich Eduardo Mosqueda Stinson Editorial Journal of Urban Mathematics Education Vol. 11, No. 1&2 5 Eileen C. Murray Jomo W. Mutegi Kayla D. Myers Marrielle Myers Na’ilah Suad Nasir Megan Nickels Francis M. Nzuki Stephen O’Brien Sarah Oppland-Cordell Daniel Clark Orey Pamela L. Paek Arnulfo Perez Joyce Piert Elijah Porter Roland G. Pourdavood Hilary Povey Angiline Powell Tamra C. Ragland Lauren Rapacki Mary Candace Raygoza María Elena Rodríguez Pérez Eliana D. Rojas Martin Romero Milton Rosa Amber Rose Francine Cabral Roy Laurie H. Rubel Derrick Saddler Matthew Sakow Pedro Paulo Scandiuzzi Allison Scott Walter G. Secada Tesha Sengupta-Irving Stanley F. H. Shaheed James Sheldon Ksenija Simic-Muller Ole Skovsmose Beverly S. Smith Erin Smith Joi A. Spencer Megan E. Staples Kathleen Jablon Stoehr Marilyn E. Strutchens Dalene M. Swanson Paola Sztajn Miwa Takeuchi Paulo Tan Daryl A. Tate William F. Tate Clarence L. Terry, Sr. Stephanie Timmons-Brown Mary P. Truxaw Erin E. Turner Paola Valero Eugenia Vomvoridi-Ivanović Lanette R. Waddell Anita A. Wager Erika N. Walker Margaret Walshaw John O. Wamsted Catharine Warner Dorothy Y. White Kristin Whyte Megan H. Wickstrom Craig Willey Brian Anthony Williams Candace Williams Morgin Jones Williams Joycelyn Wilson P. Holt Wilson Susan Wilson Melanie N. Woods Constantinos Xenofontos Emily Joy Yanisko Cathery Yeh Zeyner Ebrar Yetkiner Jamaal Rashad Young Jemimah Lea Young Jan A. Yow Paul W. Yu Maria del Rosario Zavala JUME Reviewers See Reviewer Acknowledgment January 2008–December 2018 JUME Editors Lou Edward Matthews* Editor in Chief January 2008–May 2009 David W. Stinson* Associate Editor Editor in Chief Special Issue Editor Special Issue Editor Copy and Production Editor January 2008–May 2009 June 2009–December 2018 November 2012–July 2013 January 2018–December 2018 January 2008–December 2018 Pier Junor Clarke* Associate Editor January 2008–July 2015 Ollie Irons Manley* Associate Editor January 2008–December 2011 Christine D. Thomas* Associate Editor January 2008–July 2015 http://ed-osprey.gsu.edu/ojs/index.php/JUME/article/view/365/240 Stinson Editorial Journal of Urban Mathematics Education Vol. 11, No. 1&2 6 Erika C. Bullock Assistant Editor Assistant to the Editor Special Issue Editor Associate to the Editor Public Stories Editor Copy and Production Editor January 2010–December 2012 January 2013–May 2013 November 2011–July 2012 June 2013–December 2018 January 2014–December 2018 January 2013–December 2018 Christopher C. Jett Assistant Editor Associate Editor Book Review Editor January 2010–July 2011 August 2011–July 2015 August 2015–December 2018 Nermin Bayazit Associate Editor August 2010–July 2015 Stephanie Behm Cross Associate Editor August 2010–July 2015 Iman Chahine Associate Editor August 2010–July 2015 Jessica Hale Assistant Editor August 2013–July 2014 Morgin Jones Williams Assistant Editor August 2013–July2014 Alesia Mickle Moldavan Assistant Editor Associate Editor August 2014–May 2018 June 2018–December 2018 Susan O. Cannon Assistant Editor August 2017–December 2018 Nathan N. Alexander Special Issue Editor November 2011–July 2012 Maisie L. 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