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Disability and Equity in Education
City University of New York (CUNY)
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Deserving To Belong: Complex Narratives Of Working And Learning In Self-Contained Spaces, Emily B. Clark
Deserving To Belong: Complex Narratives Of Working And Learning In Self-Contained Spaces, Emily B. Clark
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Using the tools of narrative, discourse, and visual analysis, this study examines the sensemaking of educators and former students who work(ed) and learn(ed) in self-contained special education settings. In three individual interview sessions (and one final sensemaking session), I interviewed fourteen educators and nine former students who work(ed) and learn(ed)in different kinds of self-contained settings within the New York City public school system.This project is not about a specific school, as self-contained classrooms exist in different configurations and locations throughout the city and the country. To protect the participants, all names and references to specific schools and programs have been …