International Perspectives on Teaching with Disability (eBook, ePUB)

Overcoming Obstacles and Enriching Lives
Redaktion: Jeffress, Michael

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book pulls together essays from a diverse group of well-qualified international scholars who are also teachers with disabilities. The scholars represent a broad spectrum of disabilities and academic disciplines and the chapters interrogate the experience of living and working as teachers who have different disabilities-both visible and invisible.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. März 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351584616
• Artikelnr.: 52448327

Autorenporträt

Michael S. Jeffress is a lecturer in communication studies at The University of the West Indies in Trinidad and Tobago. He is an active member of the Disability Issues Caucus of the National Communication Association. He has authored one title and edited two others in Routledge's Interdisciplinary Disability Studies series.

Inhaltsangabe

List of tables; List of contributors; Foreword Mark D. Sherry; Editor's
Preface & Introduction Michael S. Jeffress; Section I: Teaching with
Physical Disability; Chapter 1: Almost Passing: Using Disability Disclosure
to Recalibrate Able-Bodied Bias in the Classroom Julie-Ann Scott and Kelly
P. Herold; Chapter 2: Teaching on Wheels: Bringing a disability perspective
into the classroom April Coughlin; Chapter 3: How Crip is Too Crip?:
Re-Imagining the Presence of Disabled Professors in the Academy Nadine
LeGier and Michelle Owen; Chapter 4: My Class, My Disability, My Struggle
Tafadzwa Rugoho and Michael S. Jeffress; Chapter 5: Teaching Through a
Traumatic Brain Injury Sarah E. Schoper; Section II: Teaching with a
Sensory Disability; Chapter 6: "The Instructor is Partially Def": DHH
Professing in Higher Education Lisa M. Dembouski; Chapter 7: Teaching with
a Disability in the Classroom: A Dialogue about Disability Praxis Between a
Deaf Law Professor and a Hearing Education Professor Michael A. Schwartz
and Brent C. Elder; Chapter 8: "Is That Really Our Teacher professor
person?" Working from the Boundaries: Enabling from Afar Amin Makkawy;
Chapter 9: My Tech Writing Teacher Has Low Vision: Teachable Moments for
Accessibility and Diversity in the Technical Communication Classroom Gia
Alexander; Section III: Teaching with a Hidden Disability; Chapter 10: To
Share or Not to Share? Pedagogical Dilemmas of a Chronically-Ill Lecturer
in Teaching with Invisible Disability Adi Finkelstein; Chapter 11:
Negotiations of In/Visible Disability in the Rhetoric Classroom Rebecca
Miner; Chapter 12: Method to Our Madness: Teaching and Learning Across
Mental Disability Aubry D. Threlkeld and Sarah Louis Pieplow; Chapter 13:
Teaching with Dis/ability and Madness Mark A. Castrodale; Chapter 14: The
Work Around: How Teaching with Andragogical Practices Can Normalize
Learning Disabilities in Education Kimberly M. Cuny; Chapter 15: Teaching
with Augmentative and Alternative Communication Alyssa Hillary and Sam
Harvey; Chapter 16: Being Exhibit A: Teaching AIDS and Music in the
University Classroom Paul Attinello; Section IV: Teaching with Disability:
Engaging Students and Colleagues; Chapter 17: Disclosing Disability around
the Coffee Stand: Strategies for Boosting Collegiality in Academe Pauline
T. Newton, Michael S. Jeffress, and Amanda K. Thomas; Chapter 18: The
Impact of having an instructor with a disability on student attitudes
toward people with disabilities William J. Brown and Michael S. Jeffress;
Index