Descriptive Inquiry at the Margins

• Published in: Schools (Chicago, Ill.) Vol. 19; no. 2; pp. 306 - 329
• Main Author: Cioè-Peña, María
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: University of Chicago Press 01.09.2022
• Subjects: Bilingual Students; Communities of Practice; Disadvantaged; Equal Education; Inquiry; Mothers; Multi Tiered Systems of Support; Native Language; Racial Integration; Spanish; Special Education; Suburban Schools; Teacher Student Relationship; Urban Schools

In this autoethnographic article, I describe the ways in which I have used and adapted Descriptive Inquiry and the descriptive processes to further understand and support the needs of marginalized populations across three settings: a bilingual special education classroom in an urban school district,...