Disability History for Emerging Educators

Building Opportunities for Teacher Education Students to Engage with Disability History

Growing up, many of us did not have an opportunity to learn about disability history as part of our traditional K-12 curriculum when we were students. (We –the authors–did not learn about it until graduate school.) As adults and teachers, it can feel discouraging and potentially overwhelming to feel like we are lacking a foundation of knowledge to draw from–despite having an intention to learn and a desire to share it with students.