Experimenting with Poeticizing to Open a Shared Space for Emotion and Mathematics in Preservice Teacher Education

Abstract

Poetry and mathematics are not typically encountered together. In this paper, we describe our experience of taking an arts-based approach to bringing together mathematics and poetry by poeticizing the qualitative survey responses of preservice teachers who were learning to teach mathematics in elementary classrooms. We argue that poeticizing can open up new spaces and lines of inquiry to invite a rethinking of the relationship between mathematics and emotions, and unsettle the associated dominant narratives.