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Dis/ability in the Americas: The Intersections of Education, Power, and Identity

Sat, April 10, 4:10 to 5:40pm EDT (4:10 to 5:40pm EDT), SIG Sessions, SIG-Disability Studies in Education Paper and Symposium Sessions

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Abstract

This symposium presents an edited volume highlighting the rich and complex educational debates around Critical Disability Studies in Education (DSE) and critical mental health of the Americas. Through nine case studies on dis/ability from around the Americas, authors highlight how top-down approaches to disabilities further oppress rather than emancipate. Voices of disabled students and people with dis/abilities counter-narrate the personal, interpersonal, structural, and political ways in which biomedical and psychological models of disability have impacted well-being throughout education and society in the Americas. Through a critical sentipensante approach that centers the “epistemologies of the south,” this symposium presentes a push against the challenges in global mental health and dis/ability hegemony of the Americas.

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