34.072 - Disrupting Boundaries of Disability While Reimagining Educational Justice Landscapes: Contentions in Disability Studies in Education

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium reasserts the importance of revisiting the historical foundations of Disability Studies in Education (DSE) when expanding and pushing boundaries through a critical, justice-oriented, interdependent framework. Collectively, as a group of scholars, we want to stimulate dialogue and engagement with one another and with session participants-- centered around the question: In what ways can the future of DSE continue to disrupt and expand the boundaries of disability? This symposium begin with a duoethnography that centers the historical boundaries and future pathways of DSE, followed by three papers that use a range of theoretical and methodological approaches, such as post-structuralist, critical anthropology, and semiotic, to examine possible futures that are firmly grounded in DSE’s historical foundations.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Disability Studies in Education

Chairs

• Emily A. Nusbaum, University of San Francisco

• Holly Pearson, Framingham State University

Papers

• Now What? Where Have We Arrived? Perambulating Around the Historical Boundaries of Disability Studies in Education - Emily A. Nusbaum, University of San Francisco; Holly Pearson, Framingham State University

• Harm to Oneself or Others: Marked Bodies, Scholarly Taxonomy, and the Trappings of Rights-Based Interventions - Robin Roscigno, Rutgers University

• "Effective" Schooling in the Age of Capital: Critical Insights From Advocacy Anthropology, Anthropology of Education, and Disability Studies - Sara M. Acevedo, Bellevue College

• Falsified (In)Competence - Rua Mae Williams, University of Florida

Discussant

• Linda P. Ware, SUNY - College at Geneseo