Social Citizenship and Disability: Identity, Belonging, and the Structural Organization of Education

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dc.contributor.advisorKilloran, Isabel M.
dc.creatorParekh, Gillian Grace
dc.date.accessioned2015-01-26T14:38:52Z
dc.date.available2015-01-26T14:38:52Z
dc.date.copyright2014-06-24
dc.date.issued2015-01-26
dc.date.updated2015-01-26T14:38:52Z
dc.degree.disciplineCritical Disability Studies
dc.degree.levelDoctoral
dc.degree.namePhD - Doctor of Philosophy
dc.description.abstractThe framing of disability is an ongoing, negotiated discourse in which participants build upon, challenge, and reject the political, social, economic, and cultural influences that lead to constructions of impairment. Experiences of racialization, poverty, immigration, gender, and sexuality juxtaposed against defined institutionalized norms and dominant narratives speak to how disability is not only conceived but also experienced. Drawing upon transnational and citizenship theory, this thesis proposes employing a new framework of analysis, centralizing the experience of social citizenship and belonging as an indicator of broader structural equity. Situated in the field of education, theoretical considerations also explore how growing market fundamentalism shapes public schools and contributes to the systematic exclusion of poor and racialized students through mechanisms of disablement such as reduced academic programs and special education placement. This body of work includes three separate, but related, studies exploring historical and current incidences of institutional exclusion. In particular, the nuanced relationship of exclusion to race, class, gender, generational status, and sexuality, complicated with the identification of impairment, is explored. One of the most profound findings of this research is that, although there is much discussion in Disability Studies of the construction of impairment labels, this is the first quantitative analysis to substantiate these claims. Results also indicate that the classroom represents the most stratified space in which student groups defined by race, exceptionality, class, and generational status experience the greatest sense of exclusion. Evidence shows that employing a lens of citizenship and belonging is an authoritative tool in identifying the existence of inequities distributed among myriad identity groups. Furthermore, evidence lends credence to the notion that identification of disability is intimately linked to race, gender, and class contexts.  
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/28217
dc.language.isoen
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dc.subjectSociology of education
dc.subjectSocial structure
dc.subjectSpecial education
dc.subject.keywordsSocial reproduction of inequalityen_US
dc.subject.keywordsInclusive citizenshipen_US
dc.subject.keywordsBelongingen_US
dc.subject.keywordsEducation structureen_US
dc.subject.keywordsSocial justice in educationen_US
dc.subject.keywordsEducation equityen_US
dc.subject.keywordsCritical disability studiesen_US
dc.subject.keywordsCitizenship theoryen_US
dc.subject.keywordsSpecial educationen_US
dc.subject.keywordsDisproportionate representationsen_US
dc.subject.keywordsEducational inequalitiesen_US
dc.subject.keywordsSocial stratificationen_US
dc.subject.keywordsSocial theoryen_US
dc.subject.keywordsIncome inequalityen_US
dc.subject.keywordsEducational opportunitiesen_US
dc.subject.keywordsPost-secondary accessen_US
dc.subject.keywordsEducation streamingen_US
dc.subject.keywordsPrograms of choiceen_US
dc.subject.keywordsPublic educationen_US
dc.subject.keywordsHistory of educationen_US
dc.subject.keywordsReform schoolsen_US
dc.subject.keywordsDiversity and educationen_US
dc.subject.keywordsUrban educationen_US
dc.subject.keywordsCritical theoryen_US
dc.subject.keywordsSociological theoryen_US
dc.subject.keywordsClassen_US
dc.subject.keywordsRaceen_US
dc.subject.keywordsGenderen_US
dc.subject.keywordsPovertyen_US
dc.subject.keywordsQuantitative analysesen_US
dc.subject.keywordsRegression analysesen_US
dc.subject.keywordsStudent demographicsen_US
dc.subject.keywordsInclusive educationen_US
dc.subject.keywordsSocial justiceen_US
dc.titleSocial Citizenship and Disability: Identity, Belonging, and the Structural Organization of Education
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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