AERA Annual Meeting: Critically Complicating (Special) Education Policy, Process, and Praxis Through Family, Youth, Educator, and Scholar Perspectives

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Critically Complicating (Special) Education Policy, Process, and Praxis Through Family, Youth, Educator, and Scholar Perspectives

Wed, April 23, 9:00 to 10:30am MDT (9:00 to 10:30am MDT), The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Meeting Room Level, Room 703

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This collection seeks to add nuance to conversations around remedy, repair, and renewal by uncovering multifaceted tensions and questions within and across special education, inclusive education, and general education. This is crucial for youth with disabilities and their families, especially multiply-marginalized disabled youth of color and youth with complex support needs. To do so, the authors in this symposium examine educational policies, processes, and praxis through critical, intersectional, and anti-oppressive lenses. They center the perspectives, experiences, and solutions of caregivers, youth, administrators, teachers, and scholars at the intersections of multiple identity markers and oppressions. Further, they use various methods of inquiry, including counter storytelling, duoethnography, case study, self-study, and participatory co-design. Implications for research, practice, and policy will be presented.

Sub Unit

SIG-Special and Inclusive Education Research

Chair

Taucia Gonzalez, University of Arizona

Papers

Discussant

Mildred Boveda, Pennsylvania State University