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Publication Date: 2019
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"The Problem Isn't Yourself Overcoming, It's Other People Overcoming You:" A Decolonizing Mental Health DSE Curricular Cripstemology Reading of Daniel and Luna's Intersectional Dis/Ability Experiences
Educational Studies: Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, v55 n4 p436-452 2019
This study brings together 2 case studies to interrogate the intersectional experiences of historically marginalized youth at the intersections of power and identity from a decolonizing mental health disability studies in education (DSE) cripstemology approach. Specifically, we analyzed how US schools create normalized meanings of mental health. Daniel was a 1st-generation Mexican American to the United States, bilingual in both Spanish and English, and was labeled with a learning disability and a speech and language impairment. Daniel was born in Pinole, a southwestern major urban city and was in the 8th grade. Luna, a 16-year-old 10th-grader who lived at home with his mother and his stepfather and identifies as an Arab American, was on an individual education program for his disabilities including mild cerebral palsy, apraxia, and dysarthria. Luna identified as a pansexual and transgender individual and experiences depression and suicide ideation. There were similarities and differences between Daniel and Luna's experiences related to intersectional disability oppressions that were interpersonal and institutional, their identity processes around school contexts tied to their ethnicities, language use, sexuality, and their experiences with colonial mental health hegemony. Our framework created new knowledge for theory, research, and praxis within US schools.
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Mental Health, Disadvantaged Youth, Power Structure, Identification (Psychology), Middle School Students, High School Students, Behavior Standards, Social Behavior, Student Experience, Resistance (Psychology), Bullying, Learning Disabilities, Sexuality, Suicide, Mexican Americans, Arabs, North Americans, Language Usage
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Junior High Schools; Middle Schools; Secondary Education; High Schools
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Language: English
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