Rural-Community Based Pedagogies
to Teach Math

Overview

Funded by Fulbright, I conducted professional development activities for secondary teachers in rural areas of the Caribbean coast of Colombia. In these activities, teachers used ideas based on funds of knowledge and ethnomathematics to walk around their communities and visit students’ households to develop a better understanding of their students’ experiences. In this research project, I am analyzing how teachers integrate their students’ knowledge into their mathematics teaching using the CRCD Mathematics Task Rubric (Matthew, Jones, & Parker, 2013).

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Collaborators

Grants

Undergraduate Research Assistants NIU-UA - International Collaboration

Principal Investigator

Center of Latino and Latin American Studies

Northern Illinois University 

($1,000, funded 2023-2024)

Rural - Community Based Pedagogy to Teach Mathematics

Principal Investigator

Colombia Award, Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program

($12,600, funded 2022-2023)

Dissemination

1. Carranza, A., Vargas, L., Feliciano-Semidei, R., & Palencia, K. (2024). Lesson Planning in Secondary Rural Schools: Challenges and Opportunities [Poster presentation]. 2024 Math Fest. Indianapolis, IN. (Accepted)

2. Vargas, L., Carranza, A., Palencia, K., & Feliciano-Semidei, R. (2024). Fomentando el aprendizaje con pedagogías comunitarias [Conference presentation].
   7mo Encuentro Internacional de Investigación en Educación Matemática. Barranquilla, Colombia. (Accepted)

3. Feliciano-Semidei, R., & Palencia, K. A. (2025). Contexto rural del caribe colombiano descrito por docentes de matemáticas de secundaria. Revista Colombiana de Educación, 95. (Accepted).

4. Feliciano-Semidei, R., Palencia, K., & Cervantes, J. (2024). Caminatas Comunitarias para Enseñar Matemáticas en la Costa Colombiana: Un Enfoque Rural. Northern Illinois University. ISBN: 979-8-89412-376-9. https://doi.org/10.58933/MYRE4060

5. Feliciano-Semidei, R., Ricklefs, M. A., Rocha Fontalvo, Y. A., Palencia Infante,
   K. A., & Beltrán Hoyos, R. A. (2023). Preparing secondary mathematics preservice teachers for rural schools in Colombia. The International Journal of Science, Mathematics, & Technology Learning, 30(2), 83-99. https://doi.org/10.18848/2327-7971/CGP/v30i02/83-99.

6. Feliciano-Semidei, R., & Palencia, K. A. (2023). Rural school teachers writing culturally relevant lesson plans. Michigan Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators (MI-AMTE) Conversations Among Colleagues, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, Michigan. https://www.gvsu.edu/mathinaction/cac-program-2023-18.htm

7. Feliciano-Semidei, R., Ricklefs, M. A., Palencia, K. A., & Rocha Fontalvo, Y. A. (2022). Perspectiva de docentes de secundaria a una educación matemática pertinente. [Conference presentation] 6to Encuentro Internacional de Investigación en Educación Matemática. Barranquilla, Colombia. https://repositorio.uniatlantico.edu.co/handle/20.500.12834/1124