ERIC Number: EJ1232200
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Publication Date: 2019
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Educational Life in the Interregnum: Race, Dis/ability, and Special Education
Kearl, Benjamin
Democracy & Education, v27 n2 Article 2 2019
This article undertakes a comparative analysis of special education policy through the juxtaposition of two recent Supreme Court actions: "Allston v. Lower Merion School District" (2015) and "Endrew F. v. Douglas County School District" (2017). This comparison reveals an ordering of special education policy around questions of race. Specifically, this article argues that special education policy is governed by a racecraft of disability labeling that defines students of color as variously disabled and through a biopolitics of special education that expands disability services for individual students who are within the truth demarcated by scientific-juridical mediations of life. Against such negative inflections of life, this article concludes by turning to John Dewey's educational and democratic thinking to posit an affirmation of educational life that counters the morbid symptoms that presently define education's interregnum.
Descriptors: Race, Special Education, Educational Policy, Disabilities, Comparative Analysis, Court Litigation, School Districts, Labeling (of Persons), Students with Disabilities, Minority Group Students, Educational Philosophy, Democratic Values, Equal Education, Racial Discrimination, Critical Theory, African American Students, Autism, Elementary School Students
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Elementary Education
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Language: English
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