Cultivating Educational Spaces that Support Black Girl's Spatial Inquiries

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Katie Scott Newhouse Postdoctoral Fellow, Teachers College, Columbia University, USA ksn2117@tc.columbia.edu

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Black girls; court-involved; alternative-to-detention; critical spatial theory; DisCrit; restrictive educational programs; ethnographic narrative methods; multimodal approaches
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Abstract

In this article, I use data collected as part of my dissertation (Newhouse 2020) to inquire into how one participant, Joanna, who self-identifies as a Black girl, described her lived experiences while attending the Voices alternative-to-detention program. I use the theoretical framework of disability studies in education and critical race theory (DisCrit) with critical spatial theory to analyze collected ethnographic data, such as in-depth field notes, audio-recorded informal conversations, and semi-structured interviews, to show the space Joanna co-created with adult facilitators to center her lived experiences. An attention to the spatial dimension shows how spaces are agentive and has important implications for developing and sustaining educational spaces that cultivate an understanding of the geographies that draw from and center Black girls’ lived experiences.

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Katie Scott Newhouse (ORCID: 0000-0002-9686-3526) is a postdoctoral fellow in the Media and Social Change Lab at Teachers College, Columbia University. Her fields of study include disability studies in education, DisCrit, and critical spatial theory. Her research focuses on the experiences of young people mandated to attend restrictive educational programs (such as special education and juvenile justice) and the spatial implications of enrollment in these programs. She uses qualitative ethnographic multimodal methods alongside narrative inquiry to theorize about restrictive educational spaces from the lived experiences of people within them. Email: ksn2117@tc.columbia.edu

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Black girls; court-involved; alternative-to-detention; critical spatial theory; DisCrit; restrictive educational programs; ethnographic narrative methods; multimodal approaches
Print Publication Date:
01 Mar 2022
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01 Mar 2022
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