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Maggie Beneke is an Associate Professor in the College of Education at the University of Washington, specializing in Culturally Sustaining Education and Early Childhood Special Education. Her scholarship focuses on transforming deficit discourses surrounding the identities and competencies of young children, particularly those marginalized by intersecting oppressions such as ableism, racism, and linguicism. As a white woman scholar, she aims to be an inclusive early childhood teacher who understands the implications of being labeled as a disability within the context of young children. Drawing from critical disability studies and the disability justice movement, her recent research has explored how young children, families, and early educators negotiate and resist oppressive notions of 'normalcy', particularly in early literacy contexts. This work contributes to shifting teacher education paradigms within early childhood education.
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