Unfolding Towards Inclusion

Disability as Creative Method in Arts Based Research

Authors

• Maria Guarino Teachers College, Columbia Univeristy
• Srikala Naraian Teachers College, Columbia University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54916/rae.163470

Keywords:

inclusive education, intellectual disability, diffractive methodology, disability as method

Abstract

This essay moves, thinks, and wanders through an artistic research process that emerged during a study alongside intellectually disabled middle and high school students. Authors gesture towards their unfolding dynamics as the essay asks how art matters as an analytic within/through/around the process, and what implications this may have for blurring “set” identity markers and boundaries, such as time, space, and authorship. Together, the artworks and written text weave threads of analysis that resist closure.