ERIC Number: EJ1448317
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Publication Date: 2024-Aug
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Disrupting Durabilities of Colonial Logics in the Field of Special Education: Toward Abolitionist Futures
Tamara Handy
Teachers College Record, v126 n8 p63-95 2024
Background: The field of special education (SPED) has struggled with persistent equity problems in providing meaningful learning opportunities for students of color. These inequities are experienced by students who are navigating the intersection of race and disability, marginalizing and harming them. Critical scholars urge SPED to carefully consider its epistemic investments when attempting to address these injustices. Purpose: This article demonstrates the connections between persistent equity issues in SPED and the colonial logics of placement and sorting. By drawing parallels between the epistemes that organize SPED and colonial logics, this article argues that addressing equity issues in SPED, the field must seriously consider its entanglements with colonial durabilities. Research Design: This is an essay. Recommendations: This article urges the SPED field to consider abolitionist praxis as a way of disrupting the persistent inequities faced by multiply marginalized students of color. Abolitionist praxis provides the necessary tools to dismantle the durability of colonial logics.
Descriptors: Special Education, Equal Education, Colonialism, Minority Group Students, Intersectionality, Racism, Social Bias, Students with Disabilities, Educational Practices, Social Justice, Educational Change
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