When you are asked to talk about yourself as a person, where do you start? I always felt I knew myself as a person pretty well, but if asked to write a personal statement for a specific position, I found myself stumped. Where should I begin? What interesting story do I have to tell? After […]
Final Projects and Research Papers: On Anti-Ableist Assignment Design
Final Projects and Research Papers: On Anti-Ableist Assignment Design By Jenn Polish Throughout this series, I’ve argued that anti-ableist practices in our classrooms should begin before the first day of term: before we’ve met our students, before students are forced to either “out” themselves as having dis/abilities, so that we can minimally “accommodate” them, […]