Undercover Cops, Drug Deals, and Navigating Between Disability Studies in Education and Special Education

• In Event: 66.057 - Roundtable Session 27
  In Roundtable Session: 66.057-15 - Outside, Under, and Through: Traversing the Landscape of Schooling and Dis/Ability

Abstract

At the 2016 American Education Research Association Annual conference, Elizabeth Kozleski, Elizabeth Grace, Nirmala Ervelles, Linda Ware, and Alfredo Artiles drew upon personnel experiences to consider how DSE scholars might work within the field of special education to bridge the two divides. Extending this conversation, this research papers uses autoethnography to examine the lived “realities” of teaching and working between the boundaries of Disability Studies in Education (DSE) and special education. Results are analyzed using the four dialogical learning mechanisms: 1) identification, 2) coordination, 3) reflection, and 4) transformation (Akkerman & Bakker, 2011). Implications share how how we, as DSE scholars, might transform the space at the intersection of DSE and special education.

Author

• Amy J. Petersen, University of Northern Iowa