ERIC Number: EJ1445736
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 17
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ISSN: ISSN-1066-5684
EISSN: EISSN-1547-3457
Culturally Sustaining Inclusive Systemic Design to Address Overrepresentation of Students of Color with and without Dis/abilities in Exclusionary Practices
Dosun Ko; Yehyang Lee
Equity & Excellence in Education, v57 n3 p362-378 2024
Overrepresentation of students of color with and without dis/abilities in exclusionary practices (e.g., suspension, expulsion) is a historically accumulating educational debt that stems from the intersection of racism, ableism, and other forms of oppression. As a historical, sociopolitical, and geospatial situated issue, addressing racial disproportionality in exclusionary practices requires developing localized solutions in response to local racial politics and the school community's needs and goals. In an effort to develop localized solutions to racial disproportionality in exclusionary practices, the Learning Lab was implemented at an urban Middle School in the 2021-2022 academic year. The Learning Lab is a community-driven systemic design process in which local stakeholders engage in systemic analysis of the existing system and collaboratively design a new schoolwide support system. This study investigated how school stakeholders designed a culturally sustaining and inclusive support system to address the overrepresentation of students of color with and without dis/abilities in exclusionary practices.
Descriptors: Disproportionate Representation, Minority Group Students, Students with Disabilities, Inclusion, Disability Discrimination, Racial Discrimination, Educational Discrimination, Power Structure, Disadvantaged, Politics of Education, Urban Schools, Middle Schools, Stakeholders, Culturally Relevant Education, Suspension, Expulsion, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Community Action, African American Students
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Junior High Schools; Middle Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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