Tamara Handy
Biographic Data
| ID | 2199229 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tamara Handy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tamara |
| FAMILY NAME | Handy |
| SIGNATURE | HANDY T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kelaniya |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1490-7263 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Crossing boundaries towards expansive learning: Methodological affordances of video data
This paper underscores the methodological affordances of using video data as a boundary object to foster expansive learning. Based on a study conducted in a school in the war-affected Northern province of Sri Lanka, we demonstrate how expansive learning was catalyzed by video elicitation practices embedded in the methodology, revealing underlying tensions. In research contexts that examine complex systems such as classrooms – where teachers, stud…
Navigating Precarious Citizenship in Schools: Newcomer Youth of Color at the Intersection of Race and Ability
Refugee and asylum-seeking youth of color from African and Middle Eastern countries contend with racist-ableist structures in host-nation schools, primarily through newcomer supports offered to them. Considering their unique migratory experiences, this comprehensive systematic literature review explored how youth of color from Africa and the Middle East are supported in host-nation schools already entrenched in systemic racism and ableism. This r…
Conceptualizing White-Ability Saviorism: A Necessary Reckoning With Ableism in Urban Teacher Education
White saviorism is a well-documented phenomenon in the education literature. Particularly, researchers have made connections between white saviorism and teacher preparation for urban contexts serving Students of Color negatively impacted by legacies of systemic racism. Scholars are increasingly taking an intersectional lens to understand the ways in which racism and ableism intersect, yet much of the literature on white saviorism does not critica…
Early akshara knowledge in beginner readers in Sinhala: A cross-sectional study
Disrupting Durabilities of Colonial Logics in the Field of Special Education: Toward Abolitionist Futures
Background: The field of special education (SPED) has struggled with persistent equity problems in providing meaningful learning opportunities for students of color. These inequities are experienced by students who are navigating the intersection of race and disability, marginalizing and harming them. Critical scholars urge SPED to carefully consider its epistemic investments when attempting to address these injustices. Purpose: This article demo…
Reclaiming care toward disability justice
Emotional Geographies of Exclusion: Whiteness and Ability in Teacher Education Research
Context: Geographies of exclusion (e.g., segregated special education classrooms, school district zoning) are constituted through intersecting oppressive ideologies (e.g., ableism, racism, classism) that co-naturalize notions of “normalcy” and deviance and yield harmful consequences for disabled children of Color. Geographies of exclusion dynamically contribute to and constitute teacher candidates’ feelings about themselves and their social world…
Examining youth agency in post-conflict, Sri-Lankan school settings
The authors report on a youth agency study conducted in post-conflict school settings in Sri Lanka. In a three-month field-based, qualitative research study, youth collaborated with the first author to explain and expand on their interviews. Their candor and concern for ensuring that the researcher understood the rationales behind their actions helped to reveal the agentic nature of their responses to situations at school. In doing so they helped…
Sharpening Justice Through DisCrit: A Contrapuntal Analysis of Education
Calls for justice-centered education approaches have gained traction over the years. Yet given the entrenched inequities that disproportionately harm multiply-marginalized students of color, it is evident that they remain incomplete. Using a specific incident as our launching point, we explore current conceptualizations of justice through a disability critical race theory (DisCrit) contrapuntal reading of four prolific intellectuals whose work is…
Animating Discipline Disparities through Debilitating Practices: Girls of Color and Inequitable Classroom Interactions
Context Girls of Color are overrepresented in school disciplinary actions based on subjectively judged, minor infractions. Studies have consistently shown that this exclusionary discipline has long-lasting impact on Girls of Color and their educational outcomes, including increased risk for pushout and involvement in the criminal legal system. Focus of Study We sought to uncover the processes that animate the statistics of overrepre-sentation of …
DisCrit solidarity as curriculum studies and transformative praxis
Classroom and behaviour management are often touted as ways to build relationships in the classroom. Yet conceptions of classroom and behaviour management often focus on controlling or eradicating student behaviour; these carceral logics limit the ways educators can build classroom relationships focused on love and respect. Moreover, classroom and behaviour management are often rooted in punitive, top–down approaches wherein practices are dictate…
The Cultural Work of Teacher Education
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Theory Into Practice on July 11, 2017, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/00405841.2017.1336033
DisCrit solidarity as curriculum studies and transformative praxis
Classroom and behaviour management are often touted as ways to build relationships in the classroom. Yet conceptions of classroom and behaviour management often focus on controlling or eradicating student behaviour; these carceral logics limit the ways educators can build classroom relationships focused on love and respect. Moreover, classroom and behaviour management are often rooted in punitive, top–down approaches wherein practices are dictate…
Sharpening Justice Through DisCrit: A Contrapuntal Analysis of Education
Calls for justice-centered education approaches have gained traction over the years. Yet given the entrenched inequities that disproportionately harm multiply-marginalized students of color, it is evident that they remain incomplete. Using a specific incident as our launching point, we explore current conceptualizations of justice through a disability critical race theory (DisCrit) contrapuntal reading of four prolific intellectuals whose work is…
The Cultural Work of Teacher Education
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Theory Into Practice on July 11, 2017, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/00405841.2017.1336033
The Cultural Work of Teacher Education
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Theory Into Practice on July 11, 2017, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/00405841.2017.1336033
DisCrit solidarity as curriculum studies and transformative praxis
Classroom and behaviour management are often touted as ways to build relationships in the classroom. Yet conceptions of classroom and behaviour management often focus on controlling or eradicating student behaviour; these carceral logics limit the ways educators can build classroom relationships focused on love and respect. Moreover, classroom and behaviour management are often rooted in punitive, top–down approaches wherein practices are dictate…
Animating Discipline Disparities through Debilitating Practices: Girls of Color and Inequitable Classroom Interactions
Context Girls of Color are overrepresented in school disciplinary actions based on subjectively judged, minor infractions. Studies have consistently shown that this exclusionary discipline has long-lasting impact on Girls of Color and their educational outcomes, including increased risk for pushout and involvement in the criminal legal system. Focus of Study We sought to uncover the processes that animate the statistics of overrepre-sentation of …
Examining youth agency in post-conflict, Sri-Lankan school settings
The authors report on a youth agency study conducted in post-conflict school settings in Sri Lanka. In a three-month field-based, qualitative research study, youth collaborated with the first author to explain and expand on their interviews. Their candor and concern for ensuring that the researcher understood the rationales behind their actions helped to reveal the agentic nature of their responses to situations at school. In doing so they helped…
Sharpening Justice Through DisCrit: A Contrapuntal Analysis of Education
Calls for justice-centered education approaches have gained traction over the years. Yet given the entrenched inequities that disproportionately harm multiply-marginalized students of color, it is evident that they remain incomplete. Using a specific incident as our launching point, we explore current conceptualizations of justice through a disability critical race theory (DisCrit) contrapuntal reading of four prolific intellectuals whose work is…
Emotional Geographies of Exclusion: Whiteness and Ability in Teacher Education Research
Context: Geographies of exclusion (e.g., segregated special education classrooms, school district zoning) are constituted through intersecting oppressive ideologies (e.g., ableism, racism, classism) that co-naturalize notions of “normalcy” and deviance and yield harmful consequences for disabled children of Color. Geographies of exclusion dynamically contribute to and constitute teacher candidates’ feelings about themselves and their social world…
Reclaiming care toward disability justice
Disrupting Durabilities of Colonial Logics in the Field of Special Education: Toward Abolitionist Futures
Background: The field of special education (SPED) has struggled with persistent equity problems in providing meaningful learning opportunities for students of color. These inequities are experienced by students who are navigating the intersection of race and disability, marginalizing and harming them. Critical scholars urge SPED to carefully consider its epistemic investments when attempting to address these injustices. Purpose: This article demo…
Conceptualizing White-Ability Saviorism: A Necessary Reckoning With Ableism in Urban Teacher Education
White saviorism is a well-documented phenomenon in the education literature. Particularly, researchers have made connections between white saviorism and teacher preparation for urban contexts serving Students of Color negatively impacted by legacies of systemic racism. Scholars are increasingly taking an intersectional lens to understand the ways in which racism and ableism intersect, yet much of the literature on white saviorism does not critica…
Early akshara knowledge in beginner readers in Sinhala: A cross-sectional study
Crossing boundaries towards expansive learning: Methodological affordances of video data
This paper underscores the methodological affordances of using video data as a boundary object to foster expansive learning. Based on a study conducted in a school in the war-affected Northern province of Sri Lanka, we demonstrate how expansive learning was catalyzed by video elicitation practices embedded in the methodology, revealing underlying tensions. In research contexts that examine complex systems such as classrooms – where teachers, stud…
Navigating Precarious Citizenship in Schools: Newcomer Youth of Color at the Intersection of Race and Ability
Refugee and asylum-seeking youth of color from African and Middle Eastern countries contend with racist-ableist structures in host-nation schools, primarily through newcomer supports offered to them. Considering their unique migratory experiences, this comprehensive systematic literature review explored how youth of color from Africa and the Middle East are supported in host-nation schools already entrenched in systemic racism and ableism. This r…
Psychology (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Critical Race Theory in Education (7 works) · Pedagogy (6 works) · Education Discipline and Inequality (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Teacher Education and Leadership Studies (4 works) · Criminology (3 works)