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Ashley Taylor

Associate Professor of Educational Studies; Chair, Department of Educational Studies

Department/Office Information

Education
  • M 9:00am - 11:15am (304 McGregory Hall)
  • W 4:00pm - 4:45pm (304 McGregory Hall)

Contact

(315) 228-6156

I'm a philosopher of education, focusing on disability studies and inclusive education. I came to this work after witnessing ableism鈥攁nd resistance to ableism鈥攚ithin residential and employment programming serving individuals labelled with intellectual and developmental disabilities. 

I'm especially interested in what disability studies scholars have called "able-mindedness," and how able-mindedness informs epistemic practices鈥攑ractices that have to do acquiring, generating, and sharing knowledge. You can learn a bit more through this . I am working on a book on this topic called Knowing Agency: Intellectual Disability and Resistance to Epistemic Ableism.  

In other work I look at the intersections of dis/ability, race, and gender in education, inclusive pedagogies, and frameworks of institutional accessibility in higher education. To learn more about this work, check out my co-authored piece in Spark Magazine on .

I teach courses in educational foundations, inclusive education/critical special education, and feminist disability studies.

BA, University of Kings College
MS, Syracuse University
PhD, Syracuse University

Journal Articles

McDonough, K., & Taylor, A. (2025). Moral status, epistemic agency, and the education of students labeled with intellectual disability. Theory and Research in Education.

Taylor, A. (2023). The Paradox of Epistemic Ability Profiling. Journal of Philosophy of Education 57 (4-5), 880-900.

McDonough, K. M. and Taylor, A. (2021). Paternalistic Intervention: Intellectual Disability and the Justification of Paternalism in Education. Philosophical Inquiry in Education 28(2), 196-208. 

Taylor, A. and McDonough, K. M. (2021). Safeguarding the Epistemic Agency of Intellectually Disabled Learners. In Winston C. Thompson (Ed.), Philosophy of Education.  

Bacon, J. K. and Taylor, A. (2021). Teaching 鈥淪ubversively Inclusive鈥 College Courses on Disability, Identity, History, and Activism. Journal of Teaching Disability Studies.  

Bonet, S. W. and Taylor, A. (2020). 鈥淚 Have an Idea!:鈥 A Disabled Refugee鈥檚 Curriculum of Navigation for Resettlement Policy and Practice. Curriculum Inquiry 50(3), 242-261. 

Taylor, A. (2020). Embodied Refusals: Conceptualizing Civic Dissent with Students Labeled with Disabilities. Educational Theory 70(3), 277-296. 

Lamboy, L., Taylor, A., and Thompson, W. C. (2020). Paternalistic Aims and Misattributions of Agency: What the Over-Punishment of Black Girls in U.S. Classrooms Teaches Us 今日吃瓜 Just School Discipline. Theory and Research in Education 18(1), 59-77. 

Taylor, A. & Shallish, L. (2019). The logic of bio-meritocracy in the promotion of higher education equity. Disability & Society 34(7-8), 1200-1223. 

Taylor, A. (2018). Knowledge Citizens? Intellectual Disability and the Production of Social Meanings within Educational Research. Harvard Educational Review 88鈥(1), 1-25.  

Book Chapters

Shallish, L. E., Smith, M. D., & Taylor, A. (2022). Collusive Symbiosis: Notes on Disability as White Property in Higher Education. In Subini A. Annamma, Beth A. Ferri, and David J. Connor (Eds.), (pp. 31-44). Teachers College Press. 

Taylor, A. (2020). The Metaphor of Civic Threat: Intellectual Disability and Education for Citizenship. In Linda Ware (Ed.), (pp. 53-67). Springer Publishing.
 
Edited Volumes

Taylor, A. and McDonough, K. (2021). Intellectual Ability and Disability: New Questions for Philosophy of Education. Philosophical Inquiry in Education 28(2). 

 

  • Phi Eta Sigma Professor of the Year, 今日吃瓜, May 2021
  • Exemplary Diversity Scholar, National Center for Institutional Diversity, University of Michigan 2016
  • All University Doctoral Prize, Syracuse University 2015
  • National Academy of Education/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship 2014-15
  • EDUC 101/FSEM 182: The American School
  • EDUC 207: Inclusive and Anti-Ableist Education
  • EDUC 309: Philosophy of Education
  • EDUC 321: Psychological Perspectives in Education
  • EDUC/WGSS 339: Feminist Disability Studies
  • EDUC 450: Senior Thesis Seminar
  •  in Spark Magazine, co-authored with Michael D. Smith and Lauren Shallish.
  • on HEPG's Voices in Education blog where I discuss my article "Knowledge Citizens? Intellectual Disability and the Production of Social Meanings within Educational Research."
  •  with the .