Enacting Cripping Methodologies: Liberatory Praxis Through Self-Study in Teacher Education

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Abstract

This paper introduces a collaboratively developed framework for cripping methodologies—a critical, justice-driven approach to research, teaching, and learning rooted in intersectionally disabled ways of knowing and being. Through critical friendship and self-study, we explore how cripping methodologies support liberatory praxis in teacher education by centering counterstorying, intersectional access, and critical reflexivity. Drawing on multimodal data from two years of collaboration, we examine how our shared praxis resists deficit narratives and expands possibilities for collective access, care, and transformation. Our findings highlight how self-study of enacting cripping methodologies in teacher education disrupts hegemonic practices and affirms the power of disabled wisdom in shaping more just and inclusive futures.

Authors

• Sarah Arvey Tov, University of Washington

• Mikaela Zetley, University of California - Los Angeles

• David I. Hernandez-Saca, University of Northern Iowa