Imagining Disability Otherwise: The Impact of Dr. Linda P. Ware's Scholarship and Mentoring in Educational Contexts and Beyond

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This panel honors the legacy and ongoing impact of Dr. Linda P. Ware’s scholarship, teaching activism, and mentoring in the formation and entrenchment of Disability Studies in education as an academic subfield and discipline. Panel papers will reflect Dr. Ware's enduring contributions to scholarship, activist teaching, and mentorship that work to disrupt, critique, and humanize K-12 educational practices, as they related to students labeled with disabilities-- persistent issues that scholars in the field continue to face.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Disability Studies in Education

Chair

• Emily A. Nusbaum, Mills College

Papers

• Writing a Portrait of Linda Ware: A Invitation to (Re)Imagine Dis(ability) Through Arts and the Humanities - Janet S. Sauer, Lesley University

• Dared by the Ware "Wolf" to Bring Disability and Our Whole Selves to the Classroom - Suzanne Stolz, University of San Diego

• Implications and Practical Applications on Considering Disability in Social Spaces: Teaching School Leadership About Disability via Dr. Linda Ware's Scholarship - Andrea Dinaro, Concordia University Chicago

• Interrogating the Self and Disabled Other: Doing Disability Studies in Early Childhood Education - Alex Collopy, Weber State University

Discussant

• Emily A. Nusbaum, Mills College