Inclusive Teaching
The Library, Heller School for Social Policy and Management, and Center for Teaching and Learning, Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Brandeis Counseling Center and Student Accessibility Services collaborate with faculty, staff, and student colleagues to offer events and resources that focus on inclusive teaching.
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Brandeis colleagues can provide equitable support to all students with disabilities, even when those disabilities are less visible and affect how brains process information. Research indicates that many evidence-based “Universal Design for Learning” components offer enormous benefits for the neurodivergent students who require them as a civil rights accommodation while delivering helpful learning support for all students.
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- Campbell, Fiona A. Kumari. (2008). Exploring internalized ableism using critical race theory. Disability & Society, 23(2), 151–162
- Corcoran, T., White, Julie, & Whitburn, Ben. (2015). Disability Studies Educating for Inclusion (1st ed. 2015.)
- Goodley, Dan, Liddiard, Kirsty, & Runswick-Cole, Katherine. (2018). Feeling disability: theories of affect and critical disability studies. Disability & Society, 33(2), 197–217.
- Tomlinson, Elizabeth, & Newman, Sara. (2017). Valuing Writers from a Neurodiversity Perspective: Integrating New Research on Autism Spectrum Disorder into Composition Pedagogy. Composition Studies, 45(2), 91–273.
Brandeis collaborators who offer these resources include Maria Madison, Associate Dean for Equity, Inclusion and Diversity at the Heller School; Mary-Ann Winkelmes, Executive Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning; Jennifer Cannon, (UMass Amherst); Laura Hibbler, Associate University Librarian for Research & Instruction; Aretina Hamilton, Director of DEI Programming, Education Training & Development; Aparna Baskaran, Physics; Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld, Heller School for Social Policy and Management; Carina Ray, African and African American Studies and Fine Arts; and Rajesh Sampath., Heller School.
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These resources describe how Brandeis faculty and staff can support our students' success under current conditions of multiple and intersecting traumas. Contributors include Amy Scobie-Carroll, Director, Brandeis Counseling Center; Sarah Berg, Director, Prevention, Advocacy & Resource Center, Rajesh Sampath, Heller School for Social Policy and Management.
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- Video clips of Amy Scobie-Carroll, Sarah Berg and Rajesh Sampath
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