Offir Romero Castro joins the podcast to discuss his experiences living with a disability and his work in promoting inclusive mathematics education. Offir is currently a teaching and research assistant in the Mathematics Department at Western Michigan University, where he is also a Mathematics Education 2nd year-Ph.D. student. Transcripts to this episode can be found here.  

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Offir's ResearchGate page

In this part II episode, we continue our conversion with Dr. Parrey. We dive into topics of ableism, disability studies, relationality, and thinking-feeling disability. Dr. Parrey shares a couple of powerful counterstories characterized as eventful events. Transcripts to this episode can be found here.

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Mentioned in the episode:

EWU Disability Studies Facebook Page

Dr. Parrey's article in Disability Studies Quarterly titled Being Disoriented: Uncertain Encounters with Disability

Dr. Parrey's article in Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies titled Embracing Disorientation in the Disability Studies Classroom

Robin D. G. Kelley's book titled Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination

In this episode, Dr. Parrey discusses moments in which the meaning of disability, and our relation to it, is an open question. We dive into topics of ableism, disability studies, relationality, and thinking-feeling disability. Dr. Parrey shares a couple of powerful counterstories characterized as eventful events. Transcripts to this episode can be found here.

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Mentioned in the episode:

EWU Disability Studies Facebook Page

Dr. Parrey's article in Disability Studies Quarterly titled Being Disoriented: Uncertain Encounters with Disability

Dr. Parrey's article in Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies titled Embracing Disorientation in the Disability Studies Classroom

Robin D. G. Kelley's book titled Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination

In this episode Dr. Bagger who is an associate professor at Orebro University in Sweden discusses what caring may mean in mathematics education. We question and challenge the typical hierarchies associated with care and caring, instead, push us to think about caring in more reciprocal ways. Transcripts to this episode can be found here.

Find out more about Dr. Bagger

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Dr. Juuso H. Nieminen, an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Education at the University of Hong Kong and a Banting Fellow at Ontario Tech University in Canada joins the DES podcast to discuss inclusive and accessible educational assessments. Dr. Nieminen's research concerns educational assessment from social, cultural and political points of view. He is particularly interested in the student's perspective on matters of assessment. Dr Nieminen has also studied assessment from the viewpoints of inclusion, equity and diversity.

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In this episode, we are joined by Dr. Rhonda Bondie who is an associate professor in special education at Hunter College and the director of the Hunter College Learning Lab. We dive into her recently published co-authored article titled “Transforming fear into rigor, love, freedom, and joy: A new paradigm of standards-based reform.” Transcripts to this episode can be found here.  

Dr. Bondie's website

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Renita Evans joins the podcast to talk about practicing human freedom. Renita is a mother to multiple children claiming disability as a part of their identity and her research interests seeks to better connect schools and communities by examining educational and social justice issues by uniting the oral traditions of families to the broader collective voice. Transcripts to this episode can be found here.  

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