Dian Mawene

About

Dian Mawene is a professor in the Department of Rehabilitation Psychology and Special Education at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Her research interests center on the intersections of equity, disability, inclusion, and special education.

Research topics

• Sociology
• Pedagogy
• Political Science
• Psychology
• Computer Science
• Developmental psychology
• Mathematics education
• Public relations
• Social psychology
• Medical education

Selected publications

• A Systematic Review of Boundary-Crossing Partnerships in Designing Equity-Oriented Special Education Services for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students With Disabilities

  Remedial and Special Education · 2020 · 24 citations

  Providing quality special education services for culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) students with or at risk of disabilities is a double bind, a larger systemic conundrum beyond individuals’ efforts. To create an inclusive, culturally responsive system of support beyond the fragmented division of roles and nonconcerted assemblage of practices and tools, there is a need to explore the possibility of boundary-crossing collaboration for CLD students with disabilities. The purpose of this s…

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• Creating Thirdspace: Indigenous Learning Lab to Transform a School Discipline System

  American Educational Research Journal · 2024-07-30 · 15 citations

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  Racial disproportionality in school discipline is an enduring systemic problem. This study is based on a collaboration with 14 school stakeholders: American Indian students, parents, community members, and educators at a high school in a community-driven problem-solving process called Indigenous Learning Lab (ILL). ILL members addressed the root causes of the racialized school discipline and created a new school discipline system. Using critical geography and decolonizing methodology as the theo…

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• Learning lab as a utopian methodology for future making: decolonizing knowledge production toward racial justice in school discipline

  Mind Culture and Activity · 2023-01-02 · 15 citations

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  Students from minoritized communities in US public schools face harsher exclusionary discipline, leading to negative academic, social, and emotional outcomes. Racial disproportionality in school discipline is a critical inequity that requires ecologically valid solutions with local stakeholders. The Indigenous Learning Lab (ILL) was implemented to address racial disproportionality that American Indian students experience at a rural high school serving a band of an Anishinaabe nation in the Unite…

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• Spatial othering: Examining residential areas, school attendance zones, and school discipline in an urbanizing school district

  Education Policy Analysis Archives · 2020 · 15 citations

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  Drawn from interdisciplinary perspectives of special education, critical geography, and education policy, in this study, we examined the spatial patterns of residential areas, school attendance zones, and school discipline rates of an urbanizing school district in Wisconsin to understand the construction of spatial “Other.” We measured the city’s dissimilarity index to examine racial and economic segregation between neighborhoods and elementary schools. We also measured the school district suspe…

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• When Good Intentions Go Awry: A Critical Policy Analysis of Equity-Focused Policies Intended to Reduce Racial Disparities in Special Education

  Exceptional Children · 2024-11-25 · 11 citations

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  In the U.S. education system, students of color experience multiple forms of marginalization at the intersection of markers of difference. These injustices manifest in multiple forms, such as higher rates of inappropriate referrals to special education, misidentification, conferring stigmatizing labels, and subsequently placing students of color in more segregated spaces. To combat this persistent racial injustice within special education practices and programs, policymakers have formulated regu…

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Frequent coauthors

• Aydın Bal

  13 shared

• Dosun Ko

  Santa Clara University

  11 shared

• Morgan Mayer-Jochimsen

  5 shared

• Linda Orie

  5 shared

• Aaron Bird Bear

  4 shared

• Jahyun Yoo

  University of Wisconsin–Madison

  3 shared

• Elizabeth M. Schrader

  3 shared

• Kemal Afacan

  Artvin Coruh University

  2 shared

Awards & honors

• University of New Hampshire College of Liberal Arts Global R…

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