Presentation for the Spring Conference California Council on Teacher Education

Disability Studies in Education (DSE) offers a framework that (a) grounds policy / practice in the experiences ‘ perspectives of people with disabilities, (c) challenges practices/ policy that isolate, de-humanize individuals, and (c) leads to new questions to pose. In this session, pedagogy for critical book reviews from a DSE perspective is described. In writing a critical book review, we posed the following questions to guide the process. What is a DSE perspective? Why is this theoretical lens important for 21 st century teacher educators? What is a critical book review from a DSE perspective? What did we discover? Nevin, et al. theCritical Book Review