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Inaccessible Curriculum as the Disabler
Posted 6th November, 2008 by Mrs Sharon Kerr
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The principles of disability equality must become integral to education in general, for this is the predicate of a society in which persons with impairments can participate as equal citizens, a society that does not render those persons disabled … Persons may be impaired for many reasons but it is always and only an ableist society that renders these persons disabled. By limiting, diminishing and negating potential, the ableist society disables a proportion of the individuals therein, the result of which is damaging to the whole. (Bolt 2004)
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Indigenous Students with Disabilities Project
Posted 22nd October, 2008 by Mrs Sharon Kerr
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Working group for grant application
This project aims to achieve the following outcomes:
1) identify why Indigenous students with disabilities are not accessing available support services.
Engineering theory-practice spaces and implications on curriculum innovation
Posted 28th April, 2008 by Ian Cameron
Engineering Theory-Practice Spaces and Curriculum Innovation
This book provides key material to show how curriculum development is intimately linked to the concepts of the theory-practice space. In fact it can be argued in a similar manner to Barnett and Coate (2005), that:
"A curriculum ... has to be understood as the imaginative design of spaces where creative things can happen as students become engaged."
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Accessible Curriculum Project (ACP).......Sharon Kerr & Tony Payne
Posted 23rd April, 2008 by Mrs Sharon Kerr
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A group to share issues relating to developing accessible curriculum.
The aim of the project is to build capacity throughout the sector for professional development of teaching staff to enable them to develop accessible and inclusive curricula. Initially we are looking to build an online community where we can discuss issues that we are all coming up against in our various institutions relating to developing accessible curriculum. So if you are an Educational/Academic developer, lecturer/teacher, working in equity support or are simply interested in this issue ... 