Handy, Grace T. (gth2109)

B.Sc. Psychology, Truman State University, MO

M.A. Special Education, Truman State University, MO

Ph.D. Special Education, University of Kansas, KS

Dr. Handy's scholarship centers anti-ableist, anti-racist humanizing orientations that speak directly to and account for the ways Inclusive Education is designed and implemented and how such systems shape the lived realities of multiply-marginalized students at the intersections of race, disability and immigrant status in public schools. Her work is anchored in Black and postcolonial Disability Studies, Crip Studies, Third-world Feminisms and sociocultural perspectives of systems change. Grounded in these orientations she specifically examine how equity and justice can be re-imagined within Inclusive Education. Her scholarship examines the complex ways in which justice and injustice, equity and inequity and thriving and debility co-exist in schools. By acknowledging these paradoxes her work seeks to disrupt and dismantle parochial views of Inclusive Education and propel the feild toward embracing expansive ways of reimagining equity and justice. She pursues three interrelated lines of inquiry

• Examining experiences of multiply-marginalized students in special, inclusive and general education as a means of advancing inclusive education

• Understanding Teacher Learning in Teacher preparation in advancing inclusive education

• Engaging global and local discourses in inclusive education