Elizabeth J. Grace

Programs/Classes Taught:

Masters Level (Special Education):
Educational Diagnostic Assessment of Exceptional Children and Adolescents;
Diagnosis and Remediation of Math Difficulties;
Introduction to Exceptional Children and Adolescents/Special Education;
Frameworks and Perspectives in Special Education;
Social/Emotional Development, Teaching and Support;

Doctoral:
DEE (Disability and Equity in Education) 601: Traditions, Assumptions and Paradigms;
DEE 605: History of Disability in Education;
ESR (Educational Statistics and Research) 610: Paradigms of Research: Alternative Ways of Knowing

Areas of Expertise:

Autism
Disability Studies
Inclusive Practices
Pedagogy
Philosophy
Program Evaluation, Design, and Assessment
Research Methodology
Social/Emotional Support and Advocacy
Theatre

Selected Bibliography

Grace, E. J. (2013). Autistethnography. In Smith, Phil (Ed.) Both Sides of the Table: Autoethnographies of Educators Learning and Teaching With/In [Dis]ability. New York: Peter Lang (in press).

Grace, E. J. (2013). How to Be a Fourth Grader. In Danforth, Scot, (Ed.) The Best Inclusive Education: Stories and Lessons of Struggle and Success. New York: Peter Lang (in press).

Grace, E. J. (2012). Autistic Culture and Community. In Bascom, J. (Ed.) Loud Hands: Autistic People, Speaking. Washington, DC: Autistic Press.

Grace, Elizabeth J. (2012). A Person Is Not A Function. Thinking Person’s Guide to Autism. [Electronic publication.] Available at: http://www.thinkingautismguide.com/

Grace, Elizabeth J. (2012). Practitioner Know-How in Education: What Is It, and Why Is It So Important? i.e.: inquiry in education: Vol. 3: Iss. 1, Article 1.

Rademaker, L. L., Grace, E. J., & Curda, S. K. (2012). Using computer-assisted qualitative data analysis software (CAQDAS) to re-examine traditionally analyzed data: Expanding our understanding of the data and of ourselves as scholars. The Qualitative Report, 17(Art. 43), 1-11.

Curda, S., Rademaker, L. L., & Grace, E. J. (2011). Evaluating teaching quality: Balancing student course evaluations and professional development. International Journal of Multidisciplinary Thought, 1(5).

Biography:

Founder, Autistic Self Advocacy Network, Chicago Chapter
Board Member and Director of Research, Special Gifts Theatre
Editor, i.e.: inquiry in education
Community Research Liaison, Autism Women's Network
Commissioner, City of Naperville Advisory Commission on Disabilities
Member, Civic Engagement Center of National Louis University
Educational Consultant and Advocate in Private Practice

Education:

PhD
University of California, Santa Barbara
Education 2010
(Special Education, Disability and Risk Studies; Teaching and Learning; Research Methodology)

MA
University of California, Santa Barbara
Education and Philosophy 2004

BA
Portland State University, Oregon
Philosophy, Minor in Theatre Arts 1997, Summa Cum Laude

Research and Interests:

Trained in traditions of philosophy, theatre and ethnography, I am getting interested in standpoint epistemologies and emerging post-postmodern multi-locus phenomenological and intersectional modes of inquiry (for example, ways of knowing by being). This is largely because I am learning from younger and/or more tuned-in colleagues, especially in PWD and LGBTQIA communities. Such colleagues have also taught me the importance of new media in keeping current while waiting for the academic cycles to carry on as they will.

Contact Information:

http://www.tinygracenotes.com is the blog I use to stay engaged as an Autistic scholar with other autism-related communities such as families and activists, and this blog has an attendant Facebook page.  My Twitter handle is @tinygracenotes.  You can also reach and read me in the good old fashioned, printed ways; I do still love them. ;)

phone/fax: +1.847.947.5138
elizabeth.grace@nl.edu
www.nl.edu

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