Edited by: Federico R. Waitoller, Kathleen A. King Thorius
Publication Date: November 25, 2022
Pages: 264
Series: Multicultural Education Series
Asset-based pedagogies, such as culturally relevant/sustaining teaching, are frequently used to improve the educational experiences of students of color and to challenge the white curriculum that has historically informed school practices. Yet asset-based pedagogies have evaded important aspects of students’ culture and identity: those related to disability.
Sustaining Disabled Youth is the first book to address this deficit. It brings together a collection of work that situates disability as a key aspect of children and youth’s cultural identity construction. It explores how disability intersects with other markers of difference to create unique cultural repertoires to be valued, sustained, and utilized for learning. Readers will hear from prominent and emerging scholars and activists in disability studies who engage with the following questions: Can disability be considered an identity and culture in the same ways that race and ethnicity are? How can disability be incorporated to develop and sustain asset-based pedagogies that attend to intersecting forms of marginalization? How can disability serve in inquiries on the use of asset-based pedagogies? Do all disability identities and embodiments merit sustaining? How can disability justice be incorporated into other efforts toward social justice?
Book Features:
Federico R. Waitoller is an associate professor in the department of special education at the University of Illinois at Chicago and author of Excluded by Choice: Urban Students with Disabilities in the Education Marketplace. In 2023 he received the AERA Special and Inclusive Education SIG Distinguished Researcher Award. Kathleen A. King Thorius is an associate professor in Indiana University’s School of Education-IUPUI, executive director of the Great Lakes Equity Center, and co-editor of Ability, Equity, and Culture: Sustaining Inclusive Urban Education Reform.
“The text is organized into digestible parts and chapters and equips readers with analytical and hands-on tools that can be applied in both academic and classroom settings…Highly recommended.
—CHOICE
“Sustaining Disabled Youth is the hybrid space of possibilities that we have needed in (special) education—building on and advancing assets-based pedagogies while centering disability. It is in this hybridity that we can reimagine pedagogies that center and sustain disability with and through the experiences and scholarship of the multiply marginalized scholars, activists, and educators who contributed to this book.”
—Taucia González, assistant professor, disability and psychoeducational studies, The University of Arizona
Contents
Series Foreword ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Disability and Asset Pedagogies: An Introduction to the Book xv
Kathleen A. King Thorius and Federico R. Waitoller
Part I: CENTERING DISABILITY CULTURE AND IDENTITY IN SCHOOLS AND SOCIETY
1. Disabled Lives: Worthiness and Identity in an Ableist Society 3
Anjali J. Forber-Pratt and Bradley J. Minotti
2. Cultivating Positive Racial-Ethnic-Disability Identity: Opportunities in Education for Culturally Sustaining Practices at the Intersection of Race and Disability 17
Seena M. Skelton
3. Smooth and Striated Spaces: Autistic (Ill)legibility as a Deterritorializing Force 31
Sara M. Acevedo and Robin Rosigno
4. Luring the Vygotskyan Imagination: Notes for a New Bridge Between Disability Studies in Education and Asset Pedagogies 46
Federico R. Waitoller
Part II: SUSTAINING DISABILITY IDENTITIES WITHIN PEDAGOGICAL APPROACHES
5. Black Deaf Gain: A Guide to Revisioning K–12 Deaf Education 59
Onudeah D. Nicolarakis, Akilah English, and Gloshanda Lawyer
6. Disability Critical Race Theory as Asset Pedagogy 74
Subini Annamma, David Connor, and Beth Ferri
7. Krip-Hop Nation Puts Back the Fourth Element of Hip-Hop: Knowledge with a Political Limp 86
Leroy F. Moore Jr. and Keith Jones
8. Breaking Down Barriers: Hearing from Children to Learn to Teach Inclusively in Bilingual Education 95
Patricia Martínez-Álvarez and Minhye Son
Part III: ON NURTURING TEACHERS AND EDUCATIONAL LEADERS
9. Of the Insubstantiality of “Special” Worlds: Curricular Cripistemological Practices as Asset Pedagogy in Teacher Education 111
Linda Ware, David Mitchell, and Sharon Snyder
10 . Mothers of Color of Children with Dis/abilities: Centering Their Children’s Assets in Family as Faculty Projects 126
Cristina Santamaría Graff
11. Practicing for Complex Times: The Future of Disability Studies and Teacher Education 144
Srikala Naraian
12. Curriculum Theorizing, Intersectional Consciousness, and Teacher Education for Disability-Inclusive Practices 156
Mildred Boveda and Brittany Aronson
13. Leveraging Asset Pedagogies at Race/Disability Intersections in Equity-Expansive Technical Assistance 169
Kathleen A. King Thorius
Notes 183
References 185
About the Editors and the Contributors 222
Index 228
2024 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
2023 AERA Special and Inclusive Education SIG Distinguished Researcher Award to Federico R. Waitoller
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