Book Title: Disability, Learning, and Education: A Guidebook
Book Description: This Guidebook takes pre- and inservice teachers on a journey to understand how they can create learning environments that value and embrace diverse disabled students. The journey begins by exploring divergent conceptions of disability. The second stage of the journey traverses the topic of ableism and the ways that disabled people are oppressed through the intentional, and unintentional, actions, and inactions, of others. In the third stage of the journey, teachers investigate how ableism is embedded in K-12 education. The journey concludes with a self-directed deep dive into the topics each teacher feels they need to understand in order to become the teacher they want to be for their diverse disabled students.
Contents
Book Information
Book Description
The Guidebook is organized into five units and fourteen modules.
- Getting Started
- What is Disability?
- What is Ableism?
- What is K-12 education and how is ableism embedded in the system?
- What kind of teacher do you want to be for your disabled students and how will you become that person?
The Guidebook is structured around a carefully curated collection of 121 sources from 110 creators—most of whom publicly identify as Deaf or disabled. Over 500 undergraduate students at Illinois State University have found these sources helpful.
The Guidebook was originally designed to facilitate Dr. Natalie L. Shaheen’s “Special” Education 101 course and could easily be incorporated into other university teacher preparation courses. Additionally, the Guidebook could be used to facilitate professional development for inservice teachers.
License
Disability, Learning, and Education: A Guidebook Copyright © by Natalie L. Shaheen is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
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Education
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Disability, Learning, and Education: A Guidebook Copyright © by Natalie L. Shaheen is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.