Playing Together: A Call for Multiple Stakeholders to Reduce Exclusionary and Harsh Discipline for Young Black, Indigenous, Children of Color With Disabilities (Poster 37)

• In Event: AERA Virtual Poster Session 6
  In Poster Session: Critical Issues in Early Childhood Education

Abstract

Punitive disciplinary actions deny Black, Indigenous, Children of Color (BICOC) with disabilities from access to meaningful instruction and increase their risks for truancy, dropping out, and incarceration. At the intersection of race, disability, and discipline, this paper is a call to action for research and practices that bring together stakeholders and co-constructed, local solutions to exclusionary disciplinary practices affecting BICOC with disabilities. We assert that efforts to reduce disproportionately racist responses to challenging behaviors of young BICOC with disabilities (birth through age 8) require centering the knowledge and experiences of BIPOC communities, families and early childhood populations. We provide implications for practices that specifically highlight anti-racist and anti-ableist framings in schools.

Authors

• Saili S. Kulkarni, San Jose State University

• Sunyoung Kim, University of Illinois at Chicago

• Tunette Michele Powell, Mirman School