The Wisdom of Practice: Meaningful Inclusion of Students With Disabilities

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

To make progress on complex educational problems, researchers and practitioners need to collaborate on solutions. Too often, the knowledge that informs policy flows from research toward practice rather than the other way around. Additionally, knowledge development in the research community unfolds differently than it does among practitioners, leaving epistemic gaps that can be productively explored in supported dialogue. In this panel, we highlight the practitioner experience of supporting students with disabilities (SWD) because it strengthens an intersectional understanding of inclusion; and of the complex, messy, inseparability of individual, community, and systems. These perspectives open up possibilities so researchers and practitioners together can identify different, better questions and goals for meaningful inclusion and humanizing school environments for diverse SWD.

Sub Unit

• AERA Presidential Session

Chair

• Ilana S. Horn, Vanderbilt University

Panelists

• Ethan d'Ablemont-Burnes, Boston Public Schools

• Alfredo J. Artiles, Stanford University

• Maggie Beneke, University of Washington

• Vanessa Jobe, Salt Lake City School District

• Victor Joyner, Boston Public Schools

• Joy Resmovits, Seattle Times

• Kathleen A. King Thorius, Indiana University - Purdue University at Indianapolis

• irene h. yoon, University of Utah