Reframing the Master Narratives of Dis/ability Through an Emotion Lens: Bianca's and Daniel's Voices

• In Event: Culture and Diversity in Special Education

Abstract

We critically examine how two Latina/o students with Learning Disabilities (LD) experienced LD and understood the meaning of LD within their sociocultural contexts. Bianca Edith Pueblo and Daniel Martinez were two case studies from a larger dissertation study on reframing the master narratives of LD through an emotion lens (Author 1). Further, we extend the first author’s analysis of these cases to theorize gender as it relates to the discursive practices of LD at their intersections emotionally. We used socio-cultural historical perspectives that situates the cultural mediation and social origin of human development (Cole, 1996). The methods were based on a larger three-year qualitative-interdisciplinary and critical ethnographic dissertation study (Author 1). Implications for theory, research and practice are discussed.

Authors

• David Isaac Hernandez-Saca, University of Northern Iowa

• Alfredo J. Artiles, Arizona State University