Troubles Online: Ableism and Access in Higher Education - Paperback

by Chelsea Temple Jones (Editor), Fady Shanouda (Editor), Lisanne Binhammer (Editor)

The prevalence of ableism in online schooling and how it can be counteracted.

Online education is often heralded as a solution for accessibility to higher education; however, ableism thrives online. In this timely collection, contributors aim to trouble what online teaching looks like and think critically about how disability is addressed in online classrooms. Through narratives, poetry, interviews, and scholarly analysis, they reflect on disabled, mad, sick, and crip online pedagogy and highlight the possibilities of expanding critical standards for accessible teaching and learning. Necessarily interdisciplinary, this collection retheorizes the classroom around a justice-based approach to online pedagogy and challenges the assumptions we have around universal design. Refusing to position access as an afterthought, this collection troubles our engagement with online accessibility in uncertain and evolving times.

Author Biography

Chelsea Temple Jones is associate professor in the Department of Child and Youth Studies at Brock University and the co-producer of Podagogies: A Learning and Teaching Podcast at Toronto Metropolitan University. Fady Shanouda is assistant professor at the Feminist Institute of Social Transformation at Carleton University. Lisanne Binhammer is an educator, researcher, and designer who received her MA in Anthropology with a specialization in Digital Humanities from Carleton University.