Theory to Practice in Critical and Social Justice Education – serie

Becoming Motherscholars honors the collective labor, sacrifices, and knowledges that motherscholars bring to academia, affirming their interwoven praxis of resistance and transformation. Drawing on kuwentos, it presents theories, methods, and praxes for motherscholarship, by defining five embodied principles: resisting oppressive structures, recognizing overlaps, embracing intersectionality, cultivating humanizing relationships, and building solidarities. Without them, the field loses praxes of care, justice, and collective becoming needed to reimagine academia as a humanizing space.Becoming Motherscholars is essential reading for social justice scholars and higher education professionals, affirming women, faculty of color, and diverse administrators, staff, and graduate students across Ethnic Studies, Education, Gender Studies, Psychology, Political Science, and Sociology.

Becoming Motherscholars honors the collective labor, sacrifices, and knowledges that motherscholars bring to academia, affirming their interwoven praxis of resistance and transformation. Drawing on kuwentos, it presents theories, methods, and praxes for motherscholarship, by defining five embodied principles: resisting oppressive structures, recognizing overlaps, embracing intersectionality, cultivating humanizing relationships, and building solidarities. Without them, the field loses praxes of care, justice, and collective becoming needed to reimagine academia as a humanizing space.Becoming Motherscholars is essential reading for social justice scholars and higher education professionals, affirming women, faculty of color, and diverse administrators, staff, and graduate students across Ethnic Studies, Education, Gender Studies, Psychology, Political Science, and Sociology.

Addressing Racism and Ableism in the Classroom and Teacher Education centers and elevates narratives of special education teachers of color, an overlooked and underserved population in public education, as a vehicle for analyzing the tensions of race and disability. Special education teachers of color, who work and may themselves live at the intersections of these complex identity constructs, are uniquely positioned to develop effective approaches to countering racism and ableism. This book offers five critical case studies of special education teachers of color, whose replicable practices span preschool through high school classrooms while also holding urgent implications for teacher education programs. Building toward an original framework that synthesizes DisCrit and Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies, these narratives refuse deficit readings of disability among students of color and instead prepare teachers to model collective joy and pride in their identities.