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Di( ver ) sability Awareness Searching for new lines of flight Support Center for Inclusive Higher Education . Karen Leyman Leen Thienpondt. Support Center. Support Center Need for awareness Workshop 1.0 Unintentionally … Workshop 2.0. Support all Flemish higher education institutions.
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Di(ver)sability AwarenessSearching for new lines of flight Support Center for Inclusive Higher Education Karen Leyman LeenThienpondt
Support Center • Support Center • Needfor awareness • Workshop 1.0 • Unintentionally… • Workshop 2.0 • Support all Flemish higher education institutions
Support Center • Support Center • Needfor awareness • Workshop 1.0 • Unintentionally… • Workshop 2.0 Goals? • Realize inclusive higher education • Equal opportunities • Full participation
Support Center • Support Center • Needfor awareness • Workshop 1.0 • Unintentionally… • Workshop 2.0 How? • Bottom-up • In dialogue
Support Center • Support Center • Needfor awareness • Workshop 1.0 • Unintentionally… • Workshop 2.0 • Part of an international network: www.thelinknetwork.eu
Need for awareness… • Support Center • Needfor awareness • Workshop 1.0 • Unintentionally… • Workshop 2.0 • Increased enrollment among students with a disability in higher education. “Students with disability find their way to university” (29/11/2011)
Need for awareness… • Support Center • Needfor awareness • Workshop 1.0 • Unintentionally… • Workshop 2.0 Real questions… • What are the appropriate adjustments for (all) students with label dyslexia? • What to do when an autistic student comes into my class? • How to handlestudents with ADHD? • …
Need for awareness… • Support Center • Needfor awareness • Workshop 1.0 • Unintentionally… • Workshop 2.0 International research • “students and faculty still feel awkwardness, embarrassment, or pity when interacting with persons with disabilities” (Bruder & Mogro-Wilson, 2010) • “Students and faculty voiced concern that their actions or conversation might have been inappropriate.” (Bruder & Mogro-Wilson, 2010)
Need for awareness… • Support Center • Needfor awareness • Workshop 1.0 • Unintentionally… • Workshop 2.0 • “students’ experiences in higher education depended to a great extent on the level of awareness of the members of the staff they came into contact with.” (Tinklin & Hall, 1999) • “Negative attitudes were the single biggest barrier reported by participants” (Hanafinet al., 2007) • “Attitudinal barriers' is recognized widely as an impediment to success of persons with disabilities” (Rao, 2004)
Need for awareness… • Support Center • Needfor awareness • Workshop 1.0 • Unintentionally… • Workshop 2.0 • “Faculty at institutions of higher education need to be better informed to improve their attitudes” (Rao, 2004) • “… findings indicate that students and faculty would benefit from, for example a disability awareness campaign aimed at students and faculty to increase interaction and understanding of disability.” (Bruder & Mogro-Wilson, 2010)
Need for awareness… • Support Center • Needfor awareness • Workshop 1.0 • Unintentionally… • Workshop 2.0 • “Attention needs to be paid to raising awareness amongst all staff of the institution, including academic, support and service staff.” (Tinklin & Hall, 1999) • “…address the challenge of how genuinely to celebrate and embrace differences among students.” (Tinklin & Hall, 1999)
Need for awareness… • Support Center • Needfor awareness • Workshop 1.0 • Unintentionally… • Workshop 2.0 Flemish research (Soetaert, 2011): • “There’s often a lack of understanding, when I say ‘I have autism’, they instantly have an image of a person who’s sitting in the corner of the room. All those prejudices, it’s not nice.” • “That’s not possible, dyslexia doesn’t exist.”
Need for awareness… • Support Center • Needfor awareness • Workshop 1.0 • Unintentionally… • Workshop 2.0 Flemish research (Soetaert, 2011): • “They see a healthy person, but actually I’m not healthy. (…) I think it would be easier if I had lost a leg, so they can see there is something.” • “I had an attack and I heard her say: “Ah that’s not epilepsy” or “He shows off”. You also get those kind of comments.”
Workshop 1.0 • Support Center • Needfor awareness • Workshop 1.0 • Unintentionally… • Workshop 2.0 • Make persons aware of their attitude towards persons with a disability. • Tips and advice.
Workshop 1.0 • Support Center • Needfor awareness • Workshop 1.0 • Unintentionally… • Workshop 2.0 • Terms • Stereotypes • Barriers • Disability as a social construct • Ableism • Tips
Unintentially … • Support Center • Needfor awareness • Workshop 1.0 • Unintentionally… • Workshop 2.0 As a reflective practitioner…
Unintentially… • Support Center • Needfor awareness • Workshop 1.0 • Unintentionally… • Workshop 2.0 Myths: • They are helplessanddepending on us… • Theyplay the victimroletoreceiveanallowanceandadditional support.
Workshop 2.0 • Support Center • Needfor awareness • Workshop 1.0 • Unintentionally… • Workshop 2.0 • Encourage people to reflect. Perspectives on disability. Construction of categories. Own attitudes. • Non-stereotypical depiction. • Respect for diversity
Workshop 2.0 • Support Center • Needfor awareness • Workshop 1.0 • Unintentionally… • Workshop 2.0
Workshop 2.0 • Support Center • Needfor awareness • Workshop 1.0 • Unintentionally… • Workshop 2.0 Canyoufind the person with a disability?
Workshop 2.0 • Support Center • Needfor awareness • Workshop 1.0 • Unintentionally… • Workshop 2.0 Difference Differenciation
Workshop 2.0 • Support Center • Needfor awareness • Workshop 1.0 • Unintentionally… • Workshop 2.0
Workshop 2.0 • Support Center • Needfor awareness • Workshop 1.0 • Unintentionally… • Workshop 2.0
Workshop 2.0 • Support Center • Needfor awareness • Workshop 1.0 • Unintentionally… • Workshop 2.0 Exercise: • In need of support
Workshop 2.0 • Support Center • Needfor awareness • Workshop 1.0 • Unintentionally… • Workshop 2.0 Exercise: • Who am I ?
Workshop 2.0 • Support Center • Needfor awareness • Workshop 1.0 • Unintentionally… • Workshop 2.0 Exercise: • Groups & Identity
“The map of a nomadic topos is unlike any other map; it is at once map and territory. It is onrepresentational, which is to say, it does not represent but makes connectionsand projects new lines of flight. Each concept in the map is also a living circuit of becoming, rather than a dead icon. It is a becoming-map — therefore, one cannot read this map with the idea of a referent; one can only experiment with it, insert oneself into the making of it even as one constructs it. (Roy, 2003, p.80, cited in Steeves, 2012).
Questions? Remarks? • Support Center • Needfor awareness • Workshop 1.0 • Unintentionally… • Workshop 2.0
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