Critical Perspectives to Advance Educational Equity and Health Justice. Issue 4 (2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Cannon, Yael; Tuchinda, Nicole
• Editors: Wiley, Lindsay F.; Yearby, Ruqaiijah; Clark, Brietta R.; Mohapatra, Seema
• Is Part Of: Journal of law, medicine & ethics. Volume 50:Issue 4(2022)
• Page Start: 776
• Page End: 790
• Publication Date: 2022
• Subjects: Education -- Critical Perspectives -- Health Justice -- Critical Race Theory -- DisCrit; Medical laws and legislation -- United States -- Periodicals; Medical care -- Law and legislation -- United States -- Periodicals; Medical ethics -- Periodicals; Jurisprudence -- Periodicals; Legislation, Medical -- Periodicals; Legislation, Nursing -- Periodicals; Ethics -- Periodicals; Forensic Medicine -- Periodicals; Nursing -- Periodicals; Medicine -- Periodicals; Societies -- Periodicals; Medical care -- Law and legislation; Medical ethics; Medical laws and legislation; United States; Periodicals; 344.73041
• DOI: 10.1017/jme.2023.19
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1073-1105

Abstract

Abstract: A robust body of research supports the centrality of K-12 education to health and well-being. Critical perspectives, particularly Critical Race Theory (CRT) and Dis/ability Critical Race Studies (DisCrit), can deepen and widen health justice's exploration of how and why a range of educational inequities drive health disparities. The CRT approaches of counternarrative storytelling, race consciousness, intersectionality, and praxis can help scholars, researchers, policymakers, and advocates understand the disparate negative health impacts of education law and policy on students of color, students with disabilities, and those with intersecting identities. Critical perspectives focus upon and strengthen the necessary exploration of how structural racism, ableism, and other systemic barriers manifest in education and drive health disparities so that these barriers can be removed.