The Disability, Education, and Society Podcast
A podcast for collective (un)learning in the struggle for intersectional liberation. We focus on educational realms, expanding to other societal areas. We share our stories as academics as well as those of our featured guests, including disability activists involved with multifaceted dimensions of system’s equity, self-determination efforts, anti-ableist and antiracist liberation. Join us as co-conspirators.
This podcast is also available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@DES_podcast
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Dr. Alexis Padilla
Host
Dr. Alexis Padilla is a blind brown Latinx scholar/activist and a lawyer who holds a PhD in sociology and another PhD from the Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Studies department at the University of New Mexico, USA. Currently an independent researcher affiliated with Phillips Theological Seminary. Dr. Padilla is the author of Disability, Intersectional Agency and Latinx Identity, an interdisciplinary book published by Routledge in 2021. As well as the Co-Author of a volume titled Humanizing Disability, published by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) in 2019. His publications explore emancipatory learning, radical agency and intersectional disability justice/theology in the context of decolonial Latinx theorizing and critical disability studies, emphasizing the activist/disability advocacy vantage point combined with actionable dimensions of inclusive equity research and practice.
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Dr. Paulo Tan
Host
Dr. Paulo Tan (he/him) identifies as Chinese-American, cisgender male, and non-disabled. He is an Assistant Professor of Elementary Mathematics Education at the University of California Santa Cruz, USA. His research interests include advancing intersectional justice in and through mathematics education centering issues of disability. Prior to his career as teacher educator and scholar, he served as a public school middle-secondary mathematics teacher for ten years in culturally and linguistically diverse settings in Kansas and Indiana. His lived experiences with his son led Dr. Tan to pursue a doctorate in special education with an emphasis in mathematics education and has been reckoning and challenging educational inequities ever since. He is the lead author of the book Humanizing Disability in Mathematics Education: Forging New Paths published by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM). He is regularly invited to give presentations to universities and STEM organizations.
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Mia Wang
Editor
Mia Wang (she/her) identifies as Chinese American. She is a graduate of the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she earned her B.A. in Education, Democracy, and Justice, and is a proud member of the Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society. Throughout her academic and professional journey, Mia has worked in education, behavioral therapy, podcast production, and digital media. She is passionate about creative writing, storytelling, and using digital media to make research and lived experiences engaging and accessible. As she begins her next chapter in New York City, Mia hopes to continue exploring opportunities in media, communications, marketing, and creative storytelling while amplifying diverse voices.
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Episodes
Feb 27, 2024
Feb 27, 2024
1hr 12 min
In this episode, we are joined by Dr. Fernanda Malinosky who is a professor in the Mathematics Institute at Mato Grosso do Sul Federal University in Brazil. We discuss issues of education and clientelism, and inclusive educational perspectives in the Brazilian context. Transcripts can be found here.
Dr. Malinosky’s Mathematics Education, Diversity and Difference Research Group: https://sites.google.com/view/grupogedumat-ufms/about-us?authuser=0,Instagram @grupogedumad
Mentioned in the episode: Dr. Beatriz D'Ambrosio
Journal Article titled "Exclusion and inclusion processes in mathematics classrooms: Reflections on difference, normality and cultural issues within three different contexts"
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Feb 7, 2024
Feb 7, 2024
1hr 10 min
In this episode, we are joined by Dr. Anna Stetsenko who is a full Professor in the PhD Program in Psychology (and the chair of Developmental Psychology), with a joint appointment in Urban Education Program, both at The Graduate Center, the City University of New York. We discuss Dr. Stetsenko’s conception of Activist‑Transformative Methodology and its role in addressing social and environmental crisis in the context of education. Transcripts to this episode can be found here.
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Dr. Stetenko's email: astetsenko@gc.cuny.edu
Jan 28, 2024
Jan 28, 2024
1hr 7 min
In this episode, we our joined by Dr. Lisette E. Torres-Gerald, a scientist and disabled scholar-activist and Senior Researcher at TERC, a non-profit made up of teams of mathematics and science education and research experts. We discuss Dr. Torres-Gerald's advocacy work with Latinx Disabilities within and beyond the United States as well as in formal and informal STEM educational contexts. Transcripts to this episode can be found here.
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Dr. Torres-Gerald's website: https://www.informalscience.org/ ; Twitter: https://twitter.com/lisetteetorres3?lang=en; LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisette-torres-gerald-15721084
Sines of Disability: https://sinesofdisability.com/
Science for the People: https://scienceforthepeople.org/
Jan 19, 2024
Jan 19, 2024
48 min
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
Jan 11, 2024
Jan 11, 2024
30 min
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
Jan 6, 2024
Jan 6, 2024
27 min
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
Dec 28, 2023
Dec 28, 2023
54 min
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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Dec 20, 2023
Dec 20, 2023
56 min
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.
Transcripts to this episode can be found here.
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Dec 15, 2023
Dec 15, 2023
1hr 53 sec
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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Dec 13, 2023
Dec 13, 2023
1hr 2 min
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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