Rethinking and reimagining special education: stories of three college students (누구를 위한 특수교육인가? : ‘장애학생’들이 갖는 특수교육의 의미를 고찰하기 위한 내러티브 탐구)

Um, Soojung (엄수정); Aeran Yoo (유애란)

Rethinking and reimagining special education: stories of three college students

Journal of Special Education: Theory and Practice
Abbr : JSPED
2015, 16(3), pp.1-33
Publisher : Research Institute of the Korea Special Education
Research Area : Social Science > Education

Um, Soojung ¹, Aeran Yoo ¹

¹나사렛대학교

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ABSTRACT

This study, grounded in Disability Studies in Education, aims to interrogate the generally accepted assumption that special education is ‘for’ students with disabilities. This study explores how three college students with disabilities understand and interpret their experiences of special education in K-12 settings. Narrative forms of qualitative inquiry provide the framework for methodology of this study. Semi-structured in-depth interviews serve as the primary means of data collection. The findings show that the research participants conceive special education as the sole alternative to exclusive practices of general education, as a mechanism that exacerbates their materialization in schools, and as an education system that forces the ideology of normalcy. The narratives of the research participants are informed by dominant discourses of disability circulating in wider society, which justify exclusionary practices in education. Yet, their narratives produce some counter-dominant discourses that might challenge and dismantle the status quo at the same time.

KEYWORDS

Disability Studies in Education(DSE), special education, dominant discourses, counter-dominant discourses, narrative inquiry

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