Dian Mawene

Peer-Reviewed Publications

1. Mawene, D. (2025). Coded words in a demographically changing suburban school district: A critical geography perspective of White spatial imaginary. Whiteness and Education, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1080/23793406.2025.2531831
2. Mawene, D., Bal, A., Ko, D., Orie, L., Schrader, E., & Yoo, J. (2025). Decolonizing Agency: A Framework for an Inclusive Co-Design of Behavioral Support Systems in Indigenous Land. Exceptional Children, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/00144029251350059
3. Mawene, D., Li, L., Mejia, A., Mella, B., Cass, H. N., Tohuey-Childress, K., & Chandrashekhar, S. (2025). Fostering inclusion: students’ voices in the co-design of a school-district level policy. International Journal of Inclusive Education, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/13603116.2025.2496419
4. Ko, D., Mawene, D., Lee, Y., Lim, S., & Yoo, J. (2025). When good intentions go awry: A critical policy analysis of equity-focused policies intended to reduce racial disparities in special education. Exceptional Children, 91(2), 187-210. https://doi.org/10.1177/00144029241292 (PDF)
5. Ko, D., Bal, A., Mawene, D., Orie, L., Yoo, J., & Schrader, E. (2024). Dismantling the settler-colonial punitive school system: Speculative future-making with a rural high school community amid uncertainty and political backlash. Teachers College Record, 0(0). https://doi-org.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/10.1177/01614681241308103 (PDF)
6. *Li, L., Mawene, D., & Chandrashekhar, S. (2024). Navigating becoming people of color in higher education: a duoethnography of three international students of color. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 37(10), 2782–2796. https://doi.org/10.1080/09518398.2024.2388665 (PDF)
7. Mawene, D., Bal, A., Bird Bear, A., Ko, D., Orie, L., & Mayer-Jochimsen, M. (2024). Creating Thirdspace: Indigenous Learning Lab to Transform a School Discipline System. American Educational Research Journal, 61(4), 842-878. (PDF)
8. *Ko, D., Mawene, D., Krichevsky, B., & Mullins, S. L. (2024). Organizing possible futures: A systematic review on dis/ability justice frameworks to design equity-oriented inclusive teacher education programs. Review of Educational Research, 94(6), 883-926. https://doi-org.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/10.3102/00346543231212927 (PDF)
9. Ko, D., Bal, A., Bird Bear, A., Orie, L., & Mawene, D. (2023). Learning lab as a utopian methodology for future making: decolonizing knowledge production toward racial justice in school discipline. Mind, Culture, and Activity, 30(1), 5–23. (PDF)
10. Ko, D., Bal, A., Bird Bear, A., Orie, L., & Mawene, D. (2022). Indigenous Learning Lab as prefigurative political action to dismantle settler-colonial system of exclusion. International Journal of Inclusive Education, 28(11), 2642–2661. https://doi.org/10.1080/13603116.2022.2119488 (PDF)
11. Afacan, K., Bal, A., Artiles, A., Cakir, H. I., Ko, D., Mawene, D., & Kim, H. (2021). Inclusive knowledge production at an elementary school through family-school-university partnerships: A formative intervention study. Learning, Culture and Social Interaction. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lcsi.2021.100569
12. Ko, D., Mawene, D., Roberts, K., & Hong, J. (2021). Boundary-crossing partnership towards culturally responsive special education: A systematic review. Remedial and Special Education, 42(6), 412-425. (PDF)
13. Mawene, D. & Bal, A. (2020). Spatial othering: Examining residential areas, school attendance zones, and school discipline in an urbanizing school district. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 28(91), 1-26. PDF
14. Bal, A., Waitoller, F, Mawene D., Gorham, A. (2020). Culture, context, and dis/ability: A systematic literature review of Cultural-Historical Activity Theory-based studies on the teaching and learning of students with disabilities. Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies,43(4), 293–337. https://doi.org/10.1080/10714413.2020.1829312 (PDF)
15. Mawene, D. & Bal, A. (2018). Factors influencing parents’ selection of schools for children with disabilities: A systematic review of the literature. International Journal of Special Education,33 (2), 313-329. PDF
16. Mawene, D., & Cakir, H. (2017). Re-envisioning school literacy practices that engage culturally and linguistically diverse families. The Wisconsin English Journal, 59 (1-2).
17. Bal, A., Schrader, E. M., Afacan, K., & Mawene, D. (2016). Using learning labs for culturally responsive positive behavioral interventions and supports. Intervention in School and Clinic,52 (2), 122-128. (PDF)

* Equal authorship

Selected Peer-Reviewed Presentations

Mawene, D. (2023, November 8-12). Reimagining Disability Intervention: Invitation to (first) Address Spatial Injustices. [Paper session]. American Educational Studies Association (AESA) Annual Meeting, Louisville, KY.
Mawene, D. (2023, November 8-12). Leveraging the Voice of Local Stakeholders in Addressing Discrimination in a Predominantly White School District. [Roundtable Discussion]. American Educational Studies Association (AESA) Annual Meeting, Louisville, KY.
Mawene, D. (2023, April 13-16). Code Words: How Othering Is Concealed Through Institutional Policies and Everyday Discourse. [Paper session]. American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.
Mawene, D., Mayer-Jochimsen, M., Bal, A., Ko, D., Bird Bear, A., Orie, L., Yoo, J. ((2023,
April 13-16). Learning Lab Methodology: Materializing Critical Policy Analysis. [Roundtable Discussion]. American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.
Mawene, D. (2022, April 21-26). Spatial othering at the municipal, school district, and school levels: A case from a suburb. [Paper session]. American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA.

Other Publications

Bal, A., Mawene, D., Schrader, E., & Pelton, S. (2014). Practitioner brief: using data maps to understand risks and opportunities to transform school from the ground-up. Madison: Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

Book Chapters

Mawene, D. Bal, A., S. Dodge., & Mayer-Jochimsen, M. (2022). Culturally Responsive Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports for all youth. In A. Perzigian & N. Aziz (Eds.), Multicultural Special Education for Inclusive Classrooms Intersectional Teaching and Learning (pp. 57-75). Routledge. DOI: 10.4324/9781003127833-4
Bal, A., Mawene, D., Ko, D., Bird Bear, A., Orie, L., & Dodge, S.C. (2025). Fostering an equity-oriented family-school collaboration toward culturally responsive multi-tiered system of supports (CR-MTSS). In A. Garbacz, D. Minch, and M. Weist (Eds.), Family-School Collaboration in Multi-Tiered Systems of Support in Schools

Book Reviews

1. Mawene, D. (2023). Review of The Unteachables: Disability rights and the invention of Black special education. in Education Review, 30. https://doi.org/10.14507/er.v30.3753

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