Transformations Special Issue: Teaching Disability
Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy, a journal that invites college teachers to take pedagogy seriously as a topic of scholarly writing, is pleased to announce the publication of a special issue, Teaching Disability. This issue explores how teachers and scholars engage with disability in the classroom, whether their own disabilities or their students’, and as larger cultural and political questions. Sarah Chinn joins editors Jacqueline Ellis and Ellen Gruber Garvey as Guest Editor for the issue.
- When his ASL interpreters seem to drive a wedge between Joseph Michael Valente and his international students, Valente works through solutions, as he embraces his Deaf identity.
- What does it mean to embody disability in the classroom? Ellen Samuels discusses how she connects Disability Studies with feminist pedagogy in a Teacher’s Talk with Sarah Chinn.
- Bryan Villa brings his experience as a wheelchair user to design a booklet with the deceptively simple title, “Assisting a Person in a Wheelchair.”
- “The ADD Generation,” a term that has been used to derogate millennials, leads Sarah Senk to develop a pedagogy of deliberation and delay.
- Seven shorter Methods and Texts pieces each take up a specific course or teaching suggestion.
If you're in disability studies, literature, anthropology, education studies, women's and gender studies, or experiential learning, you will especially want to read this issue.
Individual copies of this issue are $10 - quantities are limited. Visit our website (below) for subscription information. You can also find this issue on JSTOR and EBSCO. Articles here are linked via JSTOR.
Table of Contents for Transformations: Teaching Disability
Introduction. Jacqueline Ellis and Ellen Gruber Garvey, editors
The Wanderer: Staging Autism as a Service-Learning Project. Telory D. Arendell
Attention to the Text: Delay and the “ADD Generation.” Sarah Senk
Theory Meets Practice in an Introduction to Disability Studies Course. Joanne Woiak and Dennis Lang
Cripping the Classroom: Disability as Teaching Method in the Humanities. Claire McKinney
PHOTO ESSAY
Guide to Assisting a Person in a Wheelchair. Bryan Villa
TEACHERS TALK
“Vulnerability and Power”: Disability, Pedagogy, Identity. Ellen Samuels and Sarah Chinn
METHODS AND TEXTS
“Cute Girl in Wheelchair --Why?”: Cripping YouTube. Rachel Reinke and Anastasia Todd
What's Best for Them: Teaching Disability Studies to Science Majors. Anna Mae Duane
Shifting Students’ Imaginings of Disability. Kathryn Linn Geurts and Jessica Hansen
Past issues, available via JSTOR and in paper form for $10 from Transformations, include Teaching and Religion, Teaching Food, Teaching Popular Culture (double issue, $20), Teaching Under Attack, Teaching Sex, Teaching Digital Media.
Forthcoming issues include: 25th Anniversary Issue, Teaching Community, and Teaching Creativity
Contact: Jacqueline Ellis and Ellen Gruber Garvey, Editors
New Jersey City University /Academic Affairs, Hepburn Hall, 309
2039 Kennedy Boulevard, Jersey City, NJ 07305
Tel: (201) 200-3071 · Fax: (201) 200-3051 · Email: transformations@njcu.edu
Website: http://www.psupress.org/journals/jnls_Transformations.html
Contact: Jacqueline Ellis and Ellen Gruber Garvey, Editors
New Jersey City University /Academic Affairs, Hepburn Hall, 309
2039 Kennedy Boulevard, Jersey City, NJ 07305
Tel: (201) 200-3071 · Fax: (201) 200-3051 · Email: transformations@njcu.edu