Reconceptualizing Disability in Education provides an essential
critical exploration of problematic discourses, practices, and
pedagogies that inform how disability is presently understood and
responded to within the field of education. Luigi Iannacci
interrogates and destabilizes ableist grand narratives that
dominate every aspect of how disability is linguistically,
bureaucratically, procedurally, and pedagogically configured within
education. Ultimately, this book seeks to forward human rights for
people with disabilities in educational contexts by clarifying and
operationalizing inclusion so that it is not just a model
necessitated by a hierarchy of legality, but rather a set of
beliefs and practices based on critical analyses and a
reconceptualization of current understandings and responses to
disability that prevent inclusion and human rights from being
realized. As the book is grounded in reconceptualist theorizing, it
draws on multiple perspectives-including critical disability
theory, post-modernism, critical theory, critical pedagogy, and
social constructivism-to deconstruct and destabilize what is
currently taken for granted about disability and those ascribed
disabled identities within education. A variety of personal,
professional, research experiences and data are offered and drawn
on to critically address questions regarding philosophical,
epistemological, pedagogical, organizational, economic, and
leadership issues as they relate to disability in education.
Critical incidents, interviews, documents, and artifacts are drawn
on and narratively presented to explore how disability is presently
configured in language, identification, and placement processes,
discourses, pedagogies, and interactions with students deemed
disabled, as well as their parents/caregivers. This critical
narrative approach fosters alternative ways of thinking, speaking,
being, and doing that forward a human rights focused model of
disability that sees as its mandate the amelioration of people with
disabilities within education.
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