Reimagining School Discipline: The Transformative Praxis of Resistance and Solidarity

• In Event: Sheraton Roundtable Session 28
  In Roundtable Session: Disproportionality in School Discipline: Exploring Policies, Practices, Contexts, and Experiences

Abstract

The ways in which discipline is differentially and violently applied to multiply-marginalized groups reveal institutional processes of racism and ableism. This paper examines the ways in which youth who navigate surveillance and punishment utilize ingenious forms of resistance and reveals ways in which to disrupt oppressive and violent discipline practices. This paper incorporates qualitative data from two studies conducted with youth that experience violent discipline in two contexts that share similarities but are geographically distinct.

Authors

• Grace Tamara Handy, The University of Kansas

• Subini Annamma