Beth Ferri
Associate Professor
Teaching and Leadership
E-mail: baferri@syr.edu
Office:
Rm. 159 Huntington Hall
Phone: 443-1465
Education:
Ph.D. University of Georgia 1997
Beth Ferri, associate professor in teaching and leadership programs, is the coordinator of the Inclusive Special Education Program (7-12). Her research interests are inclusive special education and disability studies. Ferri recently published an important book on an overlooked aspect of the struggle for racial equality in this country. In Reading Resistance: Discourses of Exclusion in Desegregation and Inclusion Debates (Peter Lang), she and coauthor David J. Connor relate that, 50 years after the Brown decision and 30 years after similar disability-related legislation, the promise of fully integrated schools remains largely unfulfilled. In Reading Resistance, Ferri and Connor explore how the entanglement of race and disability worked to create and maintain new mechanisms of exclusion. Ultimately, they explore the nexus of two questions: How has special education contributed to the failure of Brown? And, how did Brown fail to consider disability as a tool for resegregating students of color within otherwise integrated schools?
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