Adai Tefera

482 total citations
23 papers, 278 citations indexed

About

Adai Tefera is a scholar working on Education, Safety Research and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Adai Tefera has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 278 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Education, 8 papers in Safety Research and 4 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Adai Tefera's work include Education Discipline and Inequality (14 papers), Disability Education and Employment (8 papers) and Teacher Education and Leadership Studies (4 papers). Adai Tefera is often cited by papers focused on Education Discipline and Inequality (14 papers), Disability Education and Employment (8 papers) and Teacher Education and Leadership Studies (4 papers). Adai Tefera collaborates with scholars based in United States. Adai Tefera's co-authors include Gustavo E. Fischman, Catherine Kramarczuk Voulgarides, Jeanne M. Powers, Genevieve Siegel‐Hawley, Alfredo J. Artiles, Alexandra Aylward, David I. Hernández‐Saca, Erica Frankenberg, Pedro Noguera and Kate T. Anderson and has published in prestigious journals such as American Educational Research Journal, Sociology of Education and Teachers College Record The Voice of Scholarship in Education.

In The Last Decade

Adai Tefera

21 papers receiving 251 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Adai Tefera United States 9 206 92 79 34 30 23 278
Meseret F. Hailu United States 7 172 0.8× 96 1.0× 70 0.9× 12 0.4× 25 0.8× 32 265
Prudence L. Carter United States 7 323 1.6× 210 2.3× 35 0.4× 44 1.3× 84 2.8× 15 418
Stephen Kotok United States 10 277 1.3× 120 1.3× 40 0.5× 11 0.3× 18 0.6× 25 331
Sally Galman United States 7 254 1.2× 128 1.4× 34 0.4× 40 1.2× 21 0.7× 8 335
Heidi Pustjens Belgium 11 214 1.0× 44 0.5× 25 0.3× 26 0.8× 52 1.7× 14 281
Greg Wiggan United States 7 199 1.0× 91 1.0× 39 0.5× 12 0.4× 26 0.9× 32 246
Cari L. Klecka United States 11 252 1.2× 74 0.8× 22 0.3× 30 0.9× 47 1.6× 15 316
María Luisa González United States 5 267 1.3× 78 0.8× 48 0.6× 10 0.3× 32 1.1× 17 313
Beth Hatt United States 6 183 0.9× 121 1.3× 36 0.5× 12 0.4× 14 0.5× 7 252
Madora Soutter United States 9 200 1.0× 132 1.4× 120 1.5× 13 0.4× 53 1.8× 20 302

Countries citing papers authored by Adai Tefera

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Fields of papers citing papers by Adai Tefera

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Adai Tefera

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Tefera, Adai, et al.. (2024). Contextualizing Multilingual Learner Disproportionality in Special Education: A Mixed-Methods Approach. Teachers College Record The Voice of Scholarship in Education. 126(1). 29–60. 3 indexed citations
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Tefera, Adai, et al.. (2023). The Aftermath of Disproportionality Citations: Situating Disability-Race Intersections in Historical, Spatial, and Sociocultural Contexts. American Educational Research Journal. 60(2). 367–404. 22 indexed citations
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Tefera, Adai & Gustavo E. Fischman. (2023). Beyond Good Intentions in Special Education Policy: Engaging With Critical Disability Intersectional Research. Qualitative Inquiry. 30(1). 48–58. 3 indexed citations
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Tefera, Adai, et al.. (2022). The (In)Visibility of Race in School Discipline Across Urban, Suburban, and Exurban Contexts. Teachers College Record The Voice of Scholarship in Education. 124(4). 151–179. 8 indexed citations
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Voulgarides, Catherine Kramarczuk, et al.. (2021). Unpacking the Logic of Compliance in Special Education: Contextual Influences on Discipline Racial Disparities in Suburban Schools. Sociology of Education. 94(3). 208–226. 33 indexed citations
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Tefera, Adai & Gustavo E. Fischman. (2020). How and Why Context Matters in the Study of Racial Disproportionality in Special Education: Toward a Critical Disability Education Policy Approach. Equity & Excellence in Education. 53(4). 433–448. 28 indexed citations
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Zuiker, Steven J., et al.. (2019). Recognizing and Transforming Knowledge Mobilization in Colleges of Education. 15(1). 3 indexed citations
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Zuiker, Steven J., et al.. (2019). Advancing Knowledge Mobilization in Colleges of Education.. 15(1). 1 indexed citations
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Tefera, Adai. (2019). Examining the Twists, Turns, and Textures of Education Policy: How and Why Context Matters in the Racialization of Disabilities. Proceedings of the 2019 AERA Annual Meeting. 1 indexed citations
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Siegel‐Hawley, Genevieve, et al.. (2019). Understanding Racial Inequity in School Discipline Across the Richmond Region. VCU Scholars Compass (Virginia Commonwealth University). 2 indexed citations
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Fischman, Gustavo E., Kate T. Anderson, Adai Tefera, & Steven J. Zuiker. (2018). If Mobilizing Educational Research Is the Answer, Who Can Afford to Ask the Question? An Analysis of Faculty Perspectives on Knowledge Mobilization for Scholarship in Education. AERA Open. 4(1). 18 indexed citations
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Voulgarides, Catherine Kramarczuk & Adai Tefera. (2017). Reframing the Racialization of Disabilities in Policy. Theory Into Practice. 56(3). 161–168. 12 indexed citations
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Tefera, Adai, Genevieve Siegel‐Hawley, & Rachel Lévy. (2017). Why do racial disparities in school discipline exist? The role of policies, processes, people, and places. VCU Scholars Compass (Virginia Commonwealth University). 1 indexed citations
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Hernández‐Saca, David I., et al.. (2017). Intersectional Rights of Teachers and Students in Computer Science and Special Education: Implications for Urban Schooling. Urban Education. 56(5). 675–704. 3 indexed citations
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Tefera, Adai & Catherine Kramarczuk Voulgarides. (2016). Is Educational Policy Alleviating or Perpetuating the Racialization of Disabilities? An Examination of “Big-P” and “Little-p” Policies. Teachers College Record The Voice of Scholarship in Education. 118(14). 1–24. 15 indexed citations
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Fischman, Gustavo E. & Adai Tefera. (2014). Qualitative Inquiry in an Age of Educationalese. Education Policy Analysis Archives. 22. 7–7. 7 indexed citations
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Tefera, Adai, et al.. (2011). Integrating Suburban Schools: How to Benefit from Growing Diversity and Avoid Segregation.. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 21 indexed citations
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Tefera, Adai. (2007). Review: by Paul Street. 3(1).

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