Chapter 2
Disability and Cultural Justice
Learning Outcomes
• 2.1: Distinguish between macrocultures and microcultures; describe the progress of the
disability rights movement in education; and explain the current outcomes of education
for students with disabilities.
• 2.2: Summarize research findings about cultural bias related to disability and race, and
characterize the themes of intersectionality and disproportionality across six key
Chapter Heading
Learning
Objectives
Activities in the MyLab with E-text
Additional Class
Activities
Culture and
Disability
2.1
MyLab Video Example 2.1
MyLab Self-Check 2.1
MyLab Application Exercise 2.1
Nielsen Reading
Explore the
Disability Rights
Movement
Cultural Bias and
Students with
Disabilities
2.2
MyLab Self-Check 2.2
MyLab Application Exercise 2.2
Guest speaker
Disability,
Intersectionality, and
Disproportionality
2.2
MyLab Video Example 2.2
MyLab Video Example 2.3
MyLab Self-Check 2.2
MyLab Application Exercise 2.2
Suspension
brainstorming
Bias assessment
Educational
Approaches for
Enhancing Dignity
2.3
MyLab Video Example 2.4
MyLab Video Example 2.5
MyLab Self-Check 2.3
MyLab Application Exercise 2.3
Explore restorative
justice
Locate books by
diverse authors
Class Activities in Addition to MyLab Activities
Have students explore supplementary readings, such as Kim Nielsen’s A Disability History of the
United States.
Have students explore statistics on the impact of school suspensions and then explore and
brainstorm alternatives to suspension.
Have students complete the bias-assessment tests included in the chapter, and then have a class
discussion that invites students to voluntarily discuss their results and reactions to those results.