Disability Studies in Education: Readings in Theory and Method

by Susan L. Gabel (Editor)

As a field of inquiry, disability studies in education stands at the broad intersection of disability studies and educational studies. This book introduces graduate students, educational researchers, and teacher educators to the range of scholarly inquiry emerging from this exciting new field. Susan L. Gabel pulls together a sampling of the vast array of available scholarship that includes readings that intersect curriculum theory, critical policy analysis, personal narrative, and much more. Although disability studies in education has only recently been recognized as a field of inquiry with an identifiable body of literature, the chapters in this book present the work of some of the major scholars of disability studies in education.

182 pages, Paperback

First published September 30, 2005

Reviews

[Sam Hunter · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is one of the only books that I have read that has combined critical disability studies and critical pedagogy. I'm really impressed by the way the authors address disability not as something separate from everything else, but as embedded in our identities and alongside race, class, gender, sexuality, and other oppressions. I think Nirmala Erevelles' essay was my favorite in the whole book.