What Might a Disabled Education Research Paradigm Support? Learning About Research From Disabled Researchers

• In Event: Friday Roundtable Session 11:25 am
  In Roundtable Session: Sustaining Disabled Research Pedagogies: Toward an Inclusive Approach to Educational Research (Table 4)

Abstract

I here discuss several examples of disabled scholars’ work that pushes traditional research barriers and calls into question traditional assumptions about disability and education research. I discuss emerging results from putting such texts into dialogue to surface commonalities and unique perspectives disabled scholars bring to their research. In this way I am here seeking the potential of a disabled scholars research paradigm. I posit that such a paradigm would be adaptable and would answer recent calls to attend to the margins of research and the multiply marginalized in education.

Author

• Katie Westby, Michigan State University