Robin Anderson, an assistant professor of mathematics education in the NC State College of Education, has been selected as a recipient of NC State’s Goodnight Early Career Innovator Award.
Established in 2021, the Goodnight Early Career Innovators Awards support early career faculty excellence and promote retention of tenure-track assistant professors whose scholarship focuses on STEM or STEM education. Recipients of the award show outstanding promise for future achievement or impact in STEM, demonstrate superior scholarly achievement at an early career stage and have a rigorous research agenda that speaks to their potential to advance knowledge in STEM or STEM education.
“This is an extreme honor. I see this award as a collective community nod of encouragement expressing to me that I am on the right path and my work is valued,” Anderson said. “While this is a solo award, my work is done in collaboration with many amazing individuals, including undergraduate student researchers, graduate research assistants, colleagues at NC State and also collaborators across North America. I look forward to using this award to continue our work toward reframing mathematics education as a space for all who desire to be a part of it.”
Anderson’s research broadly focuses on the rehumanization of mathematics education, including the development of justice-oriented curricula, teacher educators and teacher preparation.
She is the co-principal investigator on the award-winning Design and Pitch Challenges in STEM project with fellow Goodnight Early Career Innovators award-winner and Associate Professor Erin Krupa, a collaborator on a multi-university research project analyzing the impact of intentional professional development for mathematics teacher educators that advances educational equity. She is also in the process of working with several College of Education colleagues to develop projects designed to improve pre-service teachers’ ability to teach in diverse settings as well as connect their teaching to the different communities in which they teach.
As a Goodnight Early Career Innovator, Anderson will receive $22,000 annually for three years in order to support her scholarship and research. “I hope to use this award to continue to pursue my research agenda by looking specifically at how the undergraduate teacher preparation programs can build comprehensive models for developing justice-oriented mathematics teachers,” Anderson said. “I plan to do this through a deep analysis of existing programs that center justice and equity, by piloting programmatic features within our mathematics education program here at NC State and finally by continuing my own development as a justice-oriented learner, teacher and scholar.”
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