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  • Book Club | Pedagogy Reading Rooms

    Teaching to Transgress

    December 6, 2024December 6, 2024

    Hooks notion of engaged pedagogy builds on critical pedagogy of the oppressed theories by expressly discussing the politics of engaging with the non-normative bodies in the classroom. She she also talks about the radial notion of “well being” in the classroom. This text offers educators pedagogical pathways toward anti-racist and anti-oppressive learning environments.

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  • Digital Accessibility in Praxis

    Can Workplaces, Classrooms, and Pedagogies Be Disabling?

    July 24, 2024June 20, 2025

    In a special disability-focused issue of the journal, multiple theories and perspectives on accessibility in teaching and learning, and in the workplace, are explored. Oswal’s introduction offers a concise summary of the articles, grounding them in the historical, political and contemporary thinking on disability.

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    Learners Take on Tech

    Video: What makes a video conferencing environment feel like an inclusive space?

    January 5, 2024October 6, 2024

    In this video, people with diverse experiences of disability share practices that help them to perceive, understand and engage with others in the video conferencing environment. (3 min read, 9 min video)

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  • Book Club | Disability Justice, Digital Justice and Ethics in Digital Accessibility | Post-Secondary Reading Rooms

    A Disability Justice Primer

    November 28, 2023December 6, 2024

    This is a foundational text from the Disability Justice movement and a must read.

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  • Accommodations, Services and Policies | Book Club | Digital Accessibility in Praxis | UDL

    Improving Accessible Digital Practices in Higher Education

    October 25, 2023October 6, 2024

    This book is a compendium of contemporary thinking and scholarship on the past, present and future digital practices in post-secondary education relative to learners with disabilities.

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  • Book Club | Disability Justice, Digital Justice and Ethics in Digital Accessibility

    Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

    October 24, 2023October 6, 2024

    Is teaching care work? A pathway to social justice? This book isn’t specifically about either education or digital accessibility but it is a raw, evocative work that dives into lived experiences of care and support within (and without) the disability community. It’s relevance here is as a foundational text on Disability Justice.

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  • Digital Accessibility in Praxis | UDL

    Saying No to the Checklist

    August 28, 2023November 22, 2024

    This article would be useful to educators beginning to grapple with the legacy of ablism within their courses and institutions. This critical piece of writing argues convincingly that reductionist approaches to accessibility, such as checklist tools, offer educators and institutions a false sense of accomplishment, and a simplistic understanding of learner needs.

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  • Accommodations, Services and Policies

    Chronic Illness and Academic Accommodation

    August 18, 2023October 14, 2024

    Jung is adept at pointing out how academic accommodations fall short of delivering equitable learning experiences. This is one of the very few academic papers that looks at the experiences of learners with chronic illness in post-secondary.

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Land Acknowledgment

First a note for people reading with a screen reader or text-to-speech technology: the land acknowledgement text you are about to hear uses two words from two Indigenous languages. Unfortunately, the words may come across as unintelligible because the fonts and keyboards used to author the languages have not been integrated into all assistive technologies and therefore can't yet be accurately interpreted and voiced by your technology.

People who read by sight will see the Indigenous spelling of the words, followed by an Anglicized phonetic spelling of those words, which may also be unintelligible to you. We have yet to develop conventions to offer you a culturally educative reading/voicing of words written in Indigenous languages. I see you and I'm sorry you have to wait for society to attend to, and agree on, ways to include you in linguistic decolonizing practices. For now, I've put buttons with sound clips of the Indigenous words at the end of the acknowledgement. Play the sound clips to hear the words spoken by language speakers.

I live, work and imagine on lands that have historically been stewarded by the Lək̓ʷəŋən (pronounced L-kwun-en) speaking peoples, now known as Victoria, BC. I am drawn to the shores stewarded by the W̱SÁNEĆ (pronounced Wh-say-nech) peoples. I am an uninvited settler. These lands and all the beings here inform my experiences of learning, sharing knowledge and being in community with others.

Play: Le kwun enPlay: Wh say nech

Pronunciations by niltuo.ca.

This research is supported by the BCcampus Research Fellows Program.

This program provides B.C. post-secondary educators and students with funding to conduct small-scale research on teaching and learning, as well as explore evidence-based teaching practices that focus on student success and learning.

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