A Look Inside: A Systematic Review of Disability Intersectional Research

• In Event: Roundtable Session 33
  In Roundtable Session: The Complexities and Intersections of Dis/ability Identity in Political and Educational Contexts

Abstract

Scholars in the field of special education and disability studies in education have called on researchers to adopt an intersectionality framework to understand the political, social, cultural, and historical context of disability and its effect on lived experience of youth. The purpose of this paper is to systematically review the research within the field of education that explicitly examines how various social constructions of identity intersect with dis/ability to qualitatively affect young adults experiences in schools. This systematic review of the literature is important to educational research because it will allow us to understand how these disability labels and identities are co-constructed through the lens of intersecting identity categories of difference to improve school experiences for youths and young adults.

Authors

• Lauren Gutmann Kahn, University of Oregon

• David Isaac Hernandez-Saca, Arizona State University

• Mercedes Adell Cannon, Indiana University - Indianapolis