Special education teachers’ perspectives on race and restorative justice

Authors

• Cierra Presberry, Eastern Michigan University

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2024

Department/School

Leadership and Counseling

Publication Title

Urban Education

Abstract

Restorative justice has become a widely used intervention in urban schools to address the ways that students of color and students with disabilities disproportionately face punitive disciplinary action. As such, understanding the perspectives of teachers of these students is of the utmost importance. Using Dis/ability Critical Race Studies as a theoretical framework, this interpretivist interview study centers the perspectives of three special education teachers as restorative justice is implemented at a predominantly Black urban school. This work has implications for more culturally relevant implementation of restorative justice. It also highlights the ways that race and disability impact school culture.

Comments

C. Presberry is a faculty member in EMU's Department of Leadership and Counseling.

Recommended Citation

Presberry, C. (2024). Special education teachers’ perspectives on race and restorative justice. Urban Education, 60(9), 2625–2655. https://doi.org/10.1177/00420859241293122