As we consider the role of justice in pedagogy and scholarship, I want to ask a simple but difficult question:
What is our ethical task?
Do we desire to be right? Do we desire to be powerful? Do we desire to be empathetic and other-oriented?
Earlier in my academic career, I understood my pedagogical task to be equipping students to …
In spring semester of 2017 we (Pam Block and Michele Friedner) co-taught the graduate course “Conceptual Foundations of Disability Studies.” Though the readings were the same as in previous iterations of the course, the emphasis and tone of the class shifted, not just because of the co-teaching but because we were now teaching in a context in which the rights …