29.030 - Advancing Educational Opportunities Through Inclusive Education: Community-Based Research in Special Education

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium presents a range of efforts using community-based research (CBR) to advance educational opportunities by creating more inclusive schools for historically marginalized youth such as students of color, students with disabilities, and dual language learners. The presenters highlight CBR as a critical tool in advancing these efforts by connecting research and practice by including local stakeholders. Resonating with the theme of the conference, this session looks to CBR as an opportunity to disrupt and replace “research to practice” narratives with CBR methods negotiated reflexively with local stakeholders. The range of scholarship presented in this session illustrate CBR with district leaders, teachers, community members, and youth as a promising means to advance systemic and sustainable educational opportunities in prek-12 schools.

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education / Division G - Section 5: Macro-analysis of the social contexts of teaching and learning

Chair

• Adai A. Tefera, Virginia Commonwealth University

Papers

• Madison Learning Lab: A Collaborative Systemic Transformation Project to Address the Racialization of Behavioral Problems - Aydin Bal, University of Wisconsin - Madison; John Harper, Madison Metropolitan School District

• Shared Reading to Support Membership and Participation in English/Language Arts Classes - Andrea Ruppar, University of Wisconsin

• Creating Systemic Change After School in a Youth Participatory Action Research Club - Taucia Gonzalez, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Melanie Bertrand, Arizona State University

• Advancing Inclusive Education Systems by Connecting Stakeholders to Spark Community-Engaged Research and Catalyze Innovation - Jack C. Jorgensen, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Discussant

• Alfredo J. Artiles, Arizona State University