The Critical Debate on Special Education: At the Margins of Social Justice

• In Event: 35.081 - Roundtable Session 13
  In Roundtable Session: 35.081-17 - Critical Education Across Multiple Spaces

Abstract

The fusion between critical pedagogy, holistic (moral) education, and disability studies continues to be uncharted waters, if not a hotly contested topic. Although there are publications delineating the pros and cons of such fusion, a discourse advocating for a liberating pedagogy for the disabled continues to be absent. Based on critical and moral pedagogy, this project is the self-narrative of a disabled special education teacher, who is looking and searching for answers and for the space where this dialogue can take place.

Author

• Bernardo E. Pohl, University of Houston-Downtown