Preparing to Teach Students with Disabilities in and through the Arts

Disrupting Discipline: A DisCrit Critique of Behavior “Management” in the Art Room

“…Despite a preponderance of studies about behavior management approaches in special education classrooms, no results specific to managing the behavior of disabled students in the art room were found. As art educators in U.S. public schools frequently teach every student in their schools (Gabriel, 2018;Dorff, 2018), this suggests a troubling dynamic in which even well-intentioned art teachers assume roles in the school-prison nexus, positioned by these systems to be complicit in oppressive pedagogical practices and carceral cycles of harm.…”