UW–Madison’s Aydin Bal delivered the keynote address for an online conference at the Centro Universitário Carioca (Unicarioca), in Rio, Brazil, in Dec. 2021.
Bal is a professor in the School of Education’s Department of Rehabilitation Psychology and Special Education (RPSE). Bal’s address, titled “Expansive Learning, Justice, and Joy: Systemic Transformation for Addressing Racial Disparities in Schools,” presents a longitudinal, multi-site formative intervention study implemented with local stakeholders — especially those who have historically been excluded from schools’ decision-making activities — to examine and address racial disparities in special education placement and school discipline…