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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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Mrs. Mattie Duncan
Multimedia Specialist
Mrs. Mattie Duncan (she/her) identifies as white, American, cisgender female, and non-disabled. She is a graduate research assistant at the University of Missouri- St. Louis, USA. She graduated with her bachelors in elementary education at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville in the spring of 2020. She taught first grade for 3 years in the Metro East of Illinois before furthering her education at UMSL. In the summer of 2023, Mattie obtained her masters degree in educational psychology and will be receiving her educational specialist degree in school psychology in the spring of 2025.
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Episodes
Thursday Dec 28, 2023
Thursday Dec 28, 2023
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.
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Wednesday Dec 20, 2023
Wednesday Dec 20, 2023
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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Friday Dec 15, 2023
Friday Dec 15, 2023
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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Wednesday Dec 13, 2023
Wednesday Dec 13, 2023
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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