This edited volume features innovative contributions from researchers and practitioners in the global South who use qualitative methodologies to deconstruct colonial and positivist traditions in disability and inclusive education research. The editors extend ongoing intersectional dialogues in Critical Disability Studies (CDS) and Disability Critical Race Studies (DisCrit) by collaborating with leading disability scholars and activists worldwide. This collection offers innovative, humanizing, and internationally grounded disability-centric qualitative research practices that scholars, practitioners, and activists can apply in their own spaces of advocacy and praxis.
1. Introduction.-
2. Motherhood and Disability in Context:
Transgenerational, Intersectional, and Situated Narratives in Argentina
(1981-2024).-
3. Tending the Murnong: Reflecting on a Journey to Amplify the
Voices and Experiences of First Nations People Who Are Deaf and Hard of
Hearing in Research, Practice, and Community.-
4. Story Telling and Meaning
Making in the Himalaya: Ethnographic Spatial Mapping with Disabled Persons in
Bhutan.-
5. Moving Forward with Indigenous Disability Knowledge: An Act of
Inclusion.-
6. Counterstories as Disruptive Tools in DisCrit and Dis/Ability
Research and Theorizing: A Latin American Mathematics Education
Illustration.-
7. Supporting Disabled Migrant Students and Families from the
Global South in Italy.-
8. Generating Data with Persons with Intellectual
Disabilities in Kenya: From Focus Group Discussion to Drawings.-
9. No one
cares about children with disabilities!: Shifting the Narrative and
Centering Syrian Refugee Children with Disabilities and Their Parents
Experiences in Lebanon.-
10. Inclusive Education and Organizations of Persons
with Disabilities (OPDs): Innovations from Malawi.-
11. Shifting Inclusive
Education Practices and Structures: Critical Disability Studies in the Saudi
Arabia Education System.-
12. Inside-Out: An Innovative Localized Approach
to Localized Disability Discourse Research.-
13. Conclusion.
Brent C. Elder is Associate Professor of Inclusive Education at Rowan University, USA. His research and practice center on creating sustainable inclusive education practices in under-resourced schools across the US and low-resourced countries globally. His first book, The Future of Inclusive Education: Intersectional Perspectives, was co-authored with Valentina Migliarini.
Valentina Migliarini is Associate Professor in Education Studies in the Department of Education and Social Justice at the University of Birmingham, UK. She is the Department Research Lead and an active member of the Centre for Research on Race in Education. Her work focuses on equitable access to education for multiply marginalized students, especially disabled students from migrant and forced migrant backgrounds in secondary education.
