In the disability article, it states that teachers should go through workshops to learn methods on how to incorporate lessons for students with disabilities. Should students go through their own training? This would not single out a student with disabilities, but include all students so no one would feel left out or self-conscious.
When reading Royster's article, I thought about our Alterity requirement for class and when I was an undergrad, all students were required to take a class under the multiculturalism banner. Should these classes be required earlier? Why should we wait till college? What if you don't end up going to college? Should alterity courses and the like start in elementary school?, junior high? What about high school?
Hi Farrah, in response to your first question:
ReplyDeleteAs scary and as much responsibility as it is, I think that we are the accessibility training for our students. As we are teaching them to write and examine elements like audience and bias, this article really calls for us to include issues of accessibility. Fortunately, I think that a composition classroom is actually a really relevant place to focus on accessibility issues, because we are, in a grand-scale kind of way, asking students to pay critical attention to what and how they write, and who they're writing to.
Hey Farrah,
ReplyDeleteIn response to your second question, I think optimally it would be a good thing for multicultural perspectives to be taught at a younger age, however going about this might require a much larger deal of restructuring when it comes to grade school curriculum. I think the reason college level courses are more conducive for this (at least right now) is because students are offered a variety of choices when it comes to expanding their perspectives. It might be harder for a middle or highschooler to understand the importance of learning such a perspective, which might have the unintentional side effect of leading towards resentment of the culture in the frustrated students. I think if schools were able to make room for a wider array of multicultural options for their students (without sacrificing many of the other very important subjects) that it would be culturally beneficial to try and integrate these things at a lower level.