Phila. Teachers Plan Black Lives Matter Week--Not All are Happy
By jccohenJanuary 22, 2017 - 08:39
What does this suggest about curriculum--who creates and implements it? the role of teachers here?
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What does this suggest about curriculum--who creates and implements it? the role of teachers here?
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where you were when we began this 360° process, where you are now, and what’s been happening in between. How-and-what have you been learning? Where do you think that the edges of your learning now lie? In what ways has your understanding been expanded, challenged, or complexified in this 360°? Be sure to include reflections on the degree of your critical, active engagement with the portion of the cluster devoted to the creation of our exhibit.
"If the half of Americans who say they would join an anti climate change campaign did maybe it is not impossible that they could change the system from the inside, and wouldn’t have to eradicate it." I agree with what starfish is saying about how everything is not necessarily hopeless, and how change is possible without complete participation.
As society frames it, disability is a loss and a deficit—seemingly pathological in its very existence. This is also the personal experience of a large portion of the disability community. Acquired disability is perhaps the best example of this: many people, your author included, experience acquired disability as a profound sense of loss, and a source of despair.
What if, instead, we reframed disability of all kinds as a source of gain, as the Deaf community has? This is a large part of the mission of the Disability Studies field, seeking to reframe disability as not just a loss, a deficit, but instead an expression of human difference and variation, and thus a valuable part of the human experience.