Publications

Ma, J.Y. (2016). Designing disruptions for productive hybridity: The case of walking scale geometry. Journal of the Learning Sciences, 25, 335-371. 

Ma, J. Y. (2016). Ensemble learning and knowing: Developing a walking scale geometry dilation strategy. In A. A. diSessa, M. Levin, & N. J. S. Brown (Eds.), Knowing and learning in interaction: A synthetic agenda for the learning sciences. New York, NY: Routledge.

Hall, R., Nemirovsky, R., Ma, J. Y., & Kelton, M. (2016). Towards a generous* discussion of the interplay between natural descriptive and hidden machinery orientations in Knowledge and Interaction Analysis. In A. A. diSessa, M. Levin, & N. J. S. Brown (Eds.), Knowing and learning in interaction: A synthetic agenda for the learning sciences. New York, NY: Routledge.

Hall, R., Ma, J. Y., & Nemirovsky, R. (2015). Re-scaling bodies in/as representational instruments in GPS drawing. In V. R. Lee (Ed.), Learning technologies and the body: Integration and implementation in formal and informal learning environments (pp. 112-131). New York, NY: Routledge.

Ma, J. Y., & Munter, C., (2014). The spatial production of learning opportunities in skateboard parks. Mind, Culture, and Activity, 21, 238-258. 

Ma, J. Y., & Singer-Gabella, M., (2011). Learning to teach in the figured world of reform mathematics. Journal of Teacher Education, 62, 8-22. 

Jurow, A. S., Hall, R., & Ma, J. Y., (2008). Expanding the disciplinary expertise of a middle school mathematics classroom: Re-contextualizing student models in conversations with visiting specialists. The Journal of the Learning Sciences, 17, 338-380.

Conference Papers

Ma, J. Y., & Radke, S. C. (2015, June). Interplay of artistic identities and mathematical dispositions at an art crating company. Paper presented at The Seventh International Mathematics Education and Society Conference, Portland, OR.

Ma, J. Y. (2014, June). Disruptive scales in 7th grade geometry: Designing for productive hybridity. In J. Y. Ma (Chair), Disrupting Learning: Changing Local Practice for Good. In J. L. Polman, E. A. Kyza, D. K. O’Neill, I. Tabak, W. Penuel, A. S. Jurow, K. O’Connor, T. Lee, & L. D’Amico (Eds.), Learning and becoming in practice: The International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS) 2014, Volume 3 (pp. 1399-1401). Boulder, CO: International Society of the Learning Sciences. 

Ma, J. Y. (2014, April). Making thinking visible across settings: Bridging walking scale geometry with classroom learning. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.  

Ma, J. Y. (2014, June). Re-placing the body in walking scale geometry. In K. H. Taylor (Chair), Re-Placing the Body in Children’s Learning. In J. L. Polman, E. A. Kyza, D. K. O’Neill, I. Tabak, W. Penuel, A. S. Jurow, K. O’Connor, T. Lee, & L. D’Amico (Eds.), Learning and becoming in practice: The International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS) 2014, Volume 3 (pp. 1238-1240). Boulder, CO: International Society of the Learning Sciences.

Ma, J. Y. (2013, April). Designing disruptions to classroom mathematics: Multi-party, embodied and material resources for participating in walking scale geometry. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.

Ma, J. Y., & Hall, R. (2012, April). Along for the ride: Video records of intrinsic doing, showing and learning in archeological fieldwork. In J. Umphress (Chair), Gearing Up: New Technologies for Participant-Collected Data. Symposium conducted at the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Vancouver, Canada.

Hall, R., & Ma, J. (2011, June). Learning a part together: Participant trajectories with ensemble spatial forms in a high school marching band. In R. Hall (Chair), Difference, culture, and distribution in mathematics and science learning. Symposium conducted at the 41st Annual Meeting of the Jean Piaget Society: Berkeley, CA.

Ma, J. Y., & Hall, R. (2011, February).  From dots to chunks:  Embodied learning and ensemble performance in a high school marching band.  In K. Headrick Taylor (Chair), Conceptual Flows and Implications for Learning.  Symposium conducted at the Ethnography in Education Research Forum: Philadelphia, PA.

Hall, R., & Ma, J. (2011, February).  “You know, it was a pain in the ass for those people”: Embodied measurements of change in archeological practices of spatial analysis and modeling. In K. Headrick Taylor (Chair), Conceptual Flows and Implications for Learning. Symposium conducted at the Ethnography in Education Research Forum: Philadelphia, PA.

Ma, J. Y., Hall, R., & Leander, K. M. (2010). Shifting between person, structure and settlement scales in anthropological field work. In K. Gomez, L. Lyons, & J. Radinsky (Eds.), Learning in the Disciplines: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS 2010) - Volume 2, Short Papers, Symposia, and Selected Abstracts. International Society of the Learning Sciences: Chicago IL.

Ma, J. Y., Hall, R., & Leander, K. (2010, May) Learning to see and to show: From routine to innovative modeling in archaeology. In R. Hall (Chair), Learning and development of new practices of spatial thinking. Symposium conducted at the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Denver, CO.

Ma, J. Y., Hall, R., & Leander, K. (2010, April). Learning to see and to show spatial structures: From mundane to innovative modeling in archaeology. In K. Leander (Chair), Spatial analysis and modeling in professional practices: Ethnographic case studies. Symposium conducted at the American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.

Ma, J. Y., & Singer-Gabella, M. (2009, April). Learning to teach in the figured world of reform mathematics. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA.

Ma, J. Y., & Munter, C. (2008, September). Snaking the park and doing/seeing Flatland: The spatial production of learning opportunities in two urban skateboarding parks. In R. Hall (Chair), Place, mobility, embodied action, and learning. Symposium conducted at the Meeting of the International Society for Cultural and Activity Research, San Diego, CA.