JRME Special Issue Call

[Mathematics Education Researchers (MER) community]

In our current era, governments and institutions are constraining or eliminating research that explicitly examines systemic racism, racial equity, and their intersections in mathematics education. We contend that these efforts evidenced by the termination of U.S. government funded initiatives and the broader, global restrictions on scholarship addressing race, gender, language, Indigeneity, sexuality, disability, and related forms of marginalization—are a form of epistemic suppression attempting to redefine the boundaries of legitimate inquiry in the field. Funding shapes what the field recognizes as “prominent scholarship,” a dynamic made particularly visible when racial equity research is supported then constrained through funding mechanisms. Moments of political disruption reveal how governance rapidly reshapes what counts as legitimate inquiry and has implications for whose perspectives are deemed credible and whose perspectives should be silenced.

Recent upheavals in mathematics education funding not only disrupt individual research trajectories but also undermine the collective capacity of our field to interrogate and address persistent inequities. In response, this special issue advances a deliberate and necessary scholarly act of resistance: to document, sustain, and extend research that centers systemic racism as an analytic entry point while attending to its intersections with multiple, interconnected systems of oppression. We are focusing on the songs of this moment—research that should be amplified, lest it be erased.


In this special issue of the Journal for Research in Mathematics Education (JRME), we seek research that explicitly centers systemic racism, racial equity, and their intersections, including but not limited to gender, language, Indigeneity, sexuality, and disability in mathematics education. We welcome theoretical and empirical works that engage a wide range of traditions and research methodologies and that take up these questions across diverse learning contexts, including informal spaces, formal PreK–12, undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral education, in rural, suburban, and urban settings. We aim to represent global scholars across academic ranks, from early-career researchers to senior scholars, as well as those working in community-based spaces.

We seek research and methodologies that center the perspectives of communities impacted by the harms of systemic racism.

More: https://www.nctm.org/uploadedFiles/publications/write_review_referee/journals/JRME_Call-songs_of_resistance_4-1-26.pdf

“Songs” of Resistance Special Issue Timeline

• Call for Extended Abstracts for Special Issue: April 1, 2026
• Deadline for Extended Abstracts: August 31, 2026
• Notification of Invitation to Submit Full Manuscript: October 31, 2026
• Full Manuscript Due for Peer Review: February 28, 2027
• Review, Feedback and Revisions: March 1, 2027 – December 15, 2027 (Assuming 2 rounds of
revisions)
• Publication of Special Issue: May–July 2028