Understanding the Power of Analytical Shifts in Intersectional Scholarship: A Focus on Race, as Well as on Class, Gender, Religion, Sexuality, Dis/ability, and Family Configuration

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This session examines the uses of intersectional analysis in three research arenas: the school-to-prison pipeline, religious identity and curriculum development, and inclusive education. It explores how scholarly inquiry shifts, even when all three arenas use an overlapping dimension of analysis (race), as well as when they use other unique dimensions (class, gender, religion, sexuality, dis/ability, and family configuration).
The research on the school-to-prison pipeline explores white female teacher disciplinary practices with minority male students. The religious identity and curriculum development research examines the false separation of state and religion, and constructed conflict between religion and sexuality in teaching and learning. The inclusive education-focused research problematizes ability grouping in schools, especially for so-called non-traditional families.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Critical Examination of Race, Ethnicity, Class, and Gender in Education

Chair

• Sonia Nieto, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Papers

• School-to-Prison Pipeline: Teacher Disciplinary Practices and Student Success - Christine Clark, University of Nevada - Las Vegas; Tarryn McGhie, University of Nevada - Las Vegas

• Religious Identity and Curriculum Development: The Lived Experience of Spirituality in Schooling - Mark Brimhall-Vargas, University of Maryland - College Park

• Inclusive Education: “I’m Complicated So It’s Complicated”—Intersectionality and Advocacy Across Differences - Mara Sapon-Shevin, Syracuse University

Discussant

• Sonia Nieto, University of Massachusetts - Amherst