Disabled Youth's Cultural Ways of Knowing and Doing in Special Education: Implications and Strategies

Date
2025-06-01
Language
American English
Embargo Lift Date
Department
Committee Members
Degree
Degree Year
Department
Grantor
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Found At
Springer, Cham.
Can't use the file because of accessibility barriers? Contact us with the title of the item, permanent link, and specifics of your accommodation need.
Abstract

As section leader of the ‘diversity/multicultural’ portion of the International Handbook of Special Education: Implications and Strategies, I have spent considerable time reflecting on the conceptualization of disability at the intersections of multiple non-dominant identity markers in relation to strategies benefiting disabled youth. My reflections have been heavily influenced by Waitoller and Thorius’s (2022) critical scholarship on centering and sustaining disabled youth’s assets within educational spaces. Their work alongside the scholarship of those with multiple intersectional identities (e.g., scholars of Color, disabled scholars, disabled scholars of Color), has supported an evolution of thinking around difference encapsulated in two main ideas: a) disability is part of the fabric of human variance encompassing identity formation, a connection to disability culture/s and communities, and a way of knowing that is contributive, beneficial, and evolving and (b) disability can be located as a counterhegemonic construct to disrupt “normalcy and its location in the bodies and minds of those with dominant identity markers” (Thorius, 2019, p. 212).

Description
item.page.description.tableofcontents
item.page.relation.haspart
Cite As
Santamaría Graff, C. (2025). Introduction to Section 4 – Disabled youth’s cultural ways of knowing and doing in special education: Implications and strategies. In J. Bakken (Series Ed.) Handbook for Educating Students with Disabilities. Springer International Handbooks of Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-57286-9_58-1
ISSN
Publisher
Series/Report
Sponsorship
Major
Extent
Identifier
Relation
Journal
Source
Alternative Title
Type
Book chapter
Number
Volume
Conference Dates
Conference Host
Conference Location
Conference Name
Conference Panel
Conference Secretariat Location
Version
Full Text Available at
This item is under embargo {{howLong}}