1st Edition

Disability as Meta Curriculum Epistemologies, Ontologies, and Transformative Praxis

159 Pages
by Routledge

159 Pages
by Routledge

159 Pages
by Routledge

This edited book makes an epistemic claim that disability studies’ approaches to curriculum are doing more than merely critiquing how privileged knowledge excludes disability from curriculum theory and praxis. The scholars, in this volume, argue, instead, that Disability Studies embodies an epistemic space that not only demonstrates its difference from the normative curriculum, it exceeds... Read more

1 Introduction— Disability as meta curriculum: Ontologies, epistemologies, and transformative praxis
Nirmala Erevelles, Elizabeth J. Grace and Gillian Parekh

2 Am I the curriculum?
Alyssa Hillary Zisk

3 Dominant narratives, subjugated knowledges, and the righting of the story of disability in K- 12 curricula
Jessica K. Bacon and Priya Lalvani

4 Disciplined to access the general education curriculum: Girls of color, disabilities, and specialized education programming
Mildred Boveda, Ganiva Reyes and Brittany Aronson

5 Through space into the flesh: Mapping inscriptions of anti- black racist and ableist schooling on young people’s bodies
Patricia Krueger- Henney

6 DisCrit solidarity as curriculum studies and transformative praxis
Subini Ancy Annamma and Tamara Handy

7 Precarious, debilitated and ordinary: Rethinking (in)capacity for inclusion
Srikala Naraian

8 Unlearning through Mad Studies: Disruptive pedagogical praxis
Sarah N. Snyder, Kendra- Ann Pitt, Fady Shanouda, Jijian Voronka, Jenna Reid and Danielle Landry

Biography

Gillian Parekh is Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair of Disability Studies in Education at York University in Canada.

Elizabeth (Ibby) Grace is an Independent Scholar.

Nirmala Erevelles is Professor of Social and Cultural Studies in Education at the University of Alabama, USA.