Tanushree Sarkar

Tanushree is a brown woman, wearing a blue saree with a black sweater. She has clear spectacles on and long leaf-shaped earrings. She is standing with her arms crossed, in front of a college building

Through my research, I engage with questions such as:

What happens to inclusive education as it travels across contexts and interacts with other policy priorities?
How do teachers in the global South experience, make sense of and enact global models of inclusive education?
How do teachers navigate the intersections of disability, religion, caste, gender, and class in enacting inclusive education in India?
What are the dilemmas, tensions, and contradictions experienced by teachers in enacting inclusive education? What are ways in which teachers attempt to address tensions and contradictions of enacting inclusive education?
How do we research inclusive education in inclusive ways?

My research examines the implications of the global spread of educational theories, policies, and practices for social justice, teachers' work, and the experiences of children with disabilities in schools. I study the relationship between teachers, policy, and pedagogy for inclusive and social justice education in the global South.

I am an Assistant Professor at the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis, University of Missouri. I have a doctorate in Community Research and Action from the Department of Human and Organizational Development at Peabody College, Vanderbilt University. I graduated with an MSc in Social and Cultural Psychology from the London School of Economics and Political Science and an undergraduate degree in Psychology from Lady Shri Ram College for Women.

I am currently working on a book project (!), developing an arts-based study on children's experiences of time and temporality in schooling, and editing a special issue on Peripheral Crip Critique.

This website includes my CV, links to my writing, and resources I have developed for teacher professional development for inclusive education.

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Theoretical and methodological orientation

My research draws on critical disability studies, comparative and international education, decolonial, post-colonial, and Southern theory, feminist theory, and policy sociology.

My scholarship is embedded in my experiences of engaging with and navigating my identities as a disabled woman with class and caste privilege in India.

My research methods are rooted in critical methodologies that emphasize power-sharing with participants and eschew damage-centered and deficit-oriented perspectives toward minoritized and marginalized groups.

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