On April 25, Dr. Elizabeth Morgan was a featured presenter at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) annual meeting held in Denver, CO April 23-27.  This year’s meeting theme was “Research, Remedy, and Repair: Toward Just Education Renewal”.

Dr. Morgan’s session, Critical Special Education: Reexamination, Reimagination, and Rethinking of Research, Policy, and Practice, was a structured poster session that explored the possibilities of Critical Special Education, an envisaged paradigm in which values of justice, equity, intersectionality, and wellness for individuals and collectives reside as central. Posters within this session examined topics like anti-Blackness and misogynoir in special education, inclusive education, community, revolutionary joy, teacher preparation, disability voice, critical literacy, and technoableism.

The session included an introductory overview with questions for attendees to frame the conversations with poster presenters and a whole group synthesis of insights gleaned and questions raised. These posters exemplified our collective efforts to push the boundaries of collaborative knowledge building, imagine a handbook of Critical Special Education, and help the field to re-examine, re-imagine, and rethink special education research, policy, and practice.