Reframing the Master Narratives of Dis/ability Through an Emotion Lens: Sophia Cruz's Emotion-Laden Talk

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Abstract

This study re-frames learning disabilities (LD) through the emotion-laden talk of four Latina/o students with LD. The research questions included: 1) What are the emotion-laden talk of Latina/o students about being labeled with LD? 2) What are Latina/o students' emotion-laden talk of the idea of LD? Critical ethnographic and qualitative research methods such as taking into account issues of power, etic and emic perspectives, using in-depth interviewing, field notes were used. Interdisciplinary and critical ethnographic methods were used. Specifically, descriptive coding, identification of emotion-laden talk, a thematic analysis, qualitative analysis tools (e.g., memoing, etc.) and intersectional and cultural-historical developmental constructs were used to analyze the students talk. This paper presents the case study of Sophia Cruz’s emotion-laden talk.

Author

• David Isaac Hernandez-Saca, University of Northern Iowa