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Constructing a Sense of Purpose and a Professional Teaching Identity: Experiences of Teacher Candidates with Disabilities
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Moore, Adam; Kern, Victoria; Carlson, Alexis; Vaccaro, Annemarie; Kimball, Ezekiel W.; Abbott, Jordan A.; Troiano, Peter F.; Newman, Barbara M. – Educational Forum, 2020
Using grounded theory, we examined the ways in which undergraduate teacher candidates with disabilities developed a sense of purpose and constructed professional identities. Our findings suggest K-12 experiences with advocacy as well as exclusionary school experiences influenced their emerging professional identities. Resistance to a deficit view…
Descriptors: Professional Identity, Teaching (Occupation), Preservice Teachers, Undergraduate Students
College Students with Disabilities Redefine Activism: Self-Advocacy, Storytelling, and Collective Action
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Kimball, Ezekiel W.; Moore, Adam; Vaccaro, Annemarie; Troiano, Peter F.; Newman, Barbara M. – Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 2016
Despite rapid growth in the numbers of students with disabilities enrolling in higher education, there is limited research about their experiences in colleges and universities, and information about their collegiate activism is even more limited. Through a constructivist grounded theory study of 59 college students and recent graduates, we…
Descriptors: College Students, Disabilities, Activism, Self Advocacy