Interview with Alfredo J. Artiles

Alfredo J. Artiles shares his journey into inclusive education, the evolution of inclusive education globally, and the consequences of policy decisions. He discusses the justice paradox and the role of space in shaping educational experiences. He emphasizes the need to consider equity as embedded in assumptions, policies, and rules, and encourages cross-national exchange of research and ideas.

Alfredo J. Artiles is the Lee L. Jacks Professor of Education at Stanford University. He is the Director of the Research Institute at Stanford’s Center for Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity.

Dr. Artiles received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Göteborgs (Sweden) and was Honorary Professor at the University of Birmingham (United Kingdom). His scholarship examines equity paradoxes created by educational policies. He studies how protections afforded by disability status can unwittingly stratify educational opportunities for minoritized groups and is advancing responses to these inequities. Dr. Artiles edits the book series Disability, Culture, & Equity(Teachers College Press).

He has been appointed to three consensus panels of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine and was a member of the White House Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanics. Artiles is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the National Academy of Education. He is a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association and the National Education Policy Center and a Senior Research Fellow at the Learning Policy Institute. He was a Resident Fellow at Stanford’s Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences. Recent publications can be found here.

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