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Session Type: Symposium
This symposium features papers that interrogate racial, linguistic, dis/ability, institutional, ideological, and affective borders that shape access, relationships, and learning. Grounded in critical race and sociocultural theories, equity-based inclusive education, critical disability and affect studies, feminista praxis, sociolinguistics, and critical border studies, the session examines how historical exclusions persist across policy, discourse, and practice. By tracing how systemic, affective, ableist, racialized, and discursive mechanisms marginalize multiply identified students, the papers illuminate enduring legacies of exclusion and the urgent need for border-crossing approaches to inclusive education. Spanning identity, classroom practice, family-school discourse, and policy analysis, the symposium offers conceptual and methodological tools to unforget silenced histories and intervene in the present — laying the groundwork for more just, pluralistic educational futures.
Constructing the Fifth World: Metacognitive-Cultural-Linguistic-Emotive-Affective Mediational Borders in Reading Comprehension with Emergent Bilinguals with Disabilities - Sarah M. Salinas, Minnesota State University - Mankato; David I. Hernandez-Saca, University of Northern Iowa
Addressing Disproportionality in Special Education through Pragmatic Language Research on African American Vernacular English (AAVE) - Camille O’Quin, Governors State University
Latinx Immigrant Families in the Educational Borderlands: Towards Transformative Ruptures in Family Engagement in Special Education - Argelia Lara, Santa Clara University; Pedro E. Nava, Santa Clara University; Mirsha Gomez, Oakland United School District
Living, Teaching, and Resisting at the Margins: A Transnational Autoethnography of Disability, Crisis, and Policy Disruption - Suman Rath, Montclair State University
Nuancing Racial Identity: Uniting Critical Race Theory and Gee’s Theory of Identity - William A. Proffitt, Montclair State University; Courtney L. Wilt, University of Wisconsin - Whitewater; Inna Stepaniuk, Simon Fraser University
Redrawing Educational Borders: Reimagining Eligibility and Placement of Students with Disabilities in Dual Language Programs - Dionne L. Davis, Texas State University; Xinxia Li, The George Washington University