Boundary Brokers at the Intersections of Disability Studies in Education and Special Education: Toward a More Radical Conceptualization and Enactment of Inclusive Education

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This session brings together a group of scholars at various stages of their careers to discuss their experiences working at the intersections of DSE and special education. The session will focus on a set of questions informed by research on boundary work (Akkerman & Bakker, 2011). The goal of the session is to discuss how to move beyond the epistemological, ontological, and praxis divides between the fields of DSE and special education. The panel will not follow the traditional form of panel presentations. Instead, the chairs will introduce and contextualize the session and then the panelists and the moderators (i.e., chairs) will be seated in a circle to debate a set of questions that have been provided to them in advance

Sub Unit

• SIG-Disability Studies in Education

Chairs

• Federico R. Waitoller, University of Illinois at Chicago

• Kathleen King Thorius, Indiana University - IUPUI

Papers

• Constraints, Tensions, Ambiguities, and Ignorance: In Search of Frameworks for Exploration and Liberation - Elizabeth B. Kozleski, The University of Kansas

• Working at the Intersections of Disability Studies and Special Education - Elizabeth J. Grace, National Louis University

• At the Intersections of Social Theory and Empiricism - Nirmala Erevelles, The University of Alabama

• Addressing Voice and Identity in Disability Studies in Education and Special Education - Linda P. Ware, SUNY - College at Geneseo

• Disability Intersectionalities in Cultural-Historical Contexts: An Interdisciplinary Model - Alfredo J. Artiles, Arizona State University

Discussant

• Wanda J. Blanchett, Rutgers University