Disability 鈥� 黑料不打烊 Thu, 11 Jul 2024 13:54:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 Beth Ferri /faculty-experts/beth-ferri/ Thu, 30 Mar 2023 16:12:22 +0000 /?post_type=faculty-experts&p=186513 Beth A. Ferri, Ph.D. is a Professor of Inclusive Education and Disability Studies at 黑料不打烊, where she also coordinates the Doctoral program in Special Education.

Professor Ferri has published widely on the intersection of race, gender, and disability, including articles in听Teachers College Record,听Race Ethnicity and Education,听Educational Studies,听Review of Research in Education,听International Journal of Inclusive Education,听Remedial & Special Education,听Multiple Voices for Ethnically Diverse Exceptional Learners,听Feminist Formations,听History of Education Quarterly, and the听Journal of African American History.

She has also published five co-authored and co-edited books:听Reading Resistance: Discourses of Exclusion in Desegregation and Inclusion Debates听(2006, with Connor, Peter Lang);听Righting Educational Wrongs: Disability Studies Law and Education听(2013, with Kanter, SU Press);听DisCrit: Critical Conversations Across Race, Class, & Dis/ability听(2016, with Connor & Annamma, Teachers College Press);听Stories from our Classrooms: How Working in Education Shapes Thinking about Dis/Ability听(2021, with Connor, Peter Lang); and听DisCrit Expanded听(2022, Teachers College Press, with Annamma & Connor).

]]> Christine Ashby /faculty-experts/christine-ashby/ Mon, 30 Jan 2023 16:38:43 +0000 /?post_type=faculty-experts&p=167881 Christine (Christy) Ashby is a professor of inclusive special education and disability studies and the director of the听, a research center that promotes the inclusion of people with disabilities in all aspects of school and society鈥攂oth locally and globally. She has also served as coordinator of undergraduate and graduate programs leading to certification in childhood and special education. Since joining the School of Education faculty in 2007, her teaching and research has focused on inclusive education, communicative diversity, disability studies and inclusive teacher preparation, with specific emphasis on the experiences of autistic and neurodivergent students. Her work seeks to disrupt dominant notions of disability as deficiency and underscores the importance of centering the voices of disabled people in research and practice.

Professor Ashby鈥檚 teaching and research focus on inclusive education broadly, with specific emphasis on supports for students with labels of autism and other developmental disabilities, communicative diversity, disability studies, and clinically rich teacher preparation. Her work seeks to disrupt dominant notions of disability as deficiency and underscores the importance of considering the lived experiences of individuals with disabilities and creating contexts for competence in inclusive schools and communities.

Ashby鈥檚 work has been published in journals including the听Equity and Excellence in Education,听International Journal of Inclusive Education,听Disability and Society,听Teacher Education and Special Education,听and听Intellectual and Developmental Disability. Her co-edited book,听Enacting Change from Within: Disability Studies Meets Teaching and Teacher Education听explores how disability studies can inform the practical work of teachers. She is also the co-editor of Excelsior: Leadership in Teaching and Learning. Current collaborative projects with the 黑料不打烊 City School District focus on issues of equity related to special education service provision and access to fine arts, athletics and accelerated classes for students across a variety of demographic factors.

Ashby earned an undergraduate degree from the State University of New York College at Geneseo and a master鈥檚 in special education, certificate of advanced study in disability studies and Ph.D. in special education from 黑料不打烊. She was an inclusive special education teacher before beginning her university career. Ashby is co-chair of the Disability Access and Inclusion Council, served as co-chair of the Public Impact Working Group for the Academic Strategic Plan and was a member of the Academic Affairs Committee of the Senate from 2018 to 2023. She was also selected as a member of the inaugural Women in Leadership cohort. She is currently faculty representative to the 黑料不打烊 Board of Trustees.

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