Title
Associate Professor

Department
Berkeley School of Education


Faculty URL
https://gse.berkeley.edu/tesha-sengupta-irving-shehers

Research Group
https://teshasi.com

Email
tsi@berkeley.edu


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Research Expertise and Interest
STEM Education, Learning Sciences, Inequality & Resistance, Politics of Learning, Case Study & Design-Based Research

Research Description
Tesha Sengupta-Irving’s research explores the sociocultural, disciplinary, and political dimensions of children’s mathematics learning.?Broadly, her work asks a deceptively simple question: What, in addition to mathematics, do children learn when they learn mathematics? Dr. Sengupta-Irving works closely with teachers to understand and design pedagogical approaches that promote racially minoritized children's fluency in disciplinary ideas and practices, while also engendering a sense of joy, agency, and collectivism in learning. ?Through a mix of prolonged ethnographic study, teaching experiments, and microanalyses of children’s interactions, her?work generates new knowledge to resist neoliberal logics that render math learning a stratifying project of race, class, and gender in schools.