Teaching and the Experience of Disability: The Pedagogy of Ed Roberts

Auteurs-es

  • Scot Danforth Attallah College of Educational Studies Chapman University

DOI :

https://doi.org/10.15353/cjds.v9i5.705

Résumé

Ed Roberts was a renowned activist considered to be one of the founding leaders of the American disability rights movement. Although he engaged in numerous political strategies, his main form of activism was teaching in his prolific public speaking career across the United States and around the world. The content and methods of his pedagogy were crafted from his own personal experiences as a disabled man. His teaching featured autobiographic selections from his own life in which he fought and defeated forces of oppression and discrimination. This article examines Roberts’ disability rights teaching in relation to the experiential sources, political content, and teaching techniques.

Biographie de l'auteur-e

Scot Danforth, Attallah College of Educational Studies Chapman University

Attallah College of Educational Studies Chapman University

Publié-e

2020-12-20

Comment citer

Danforth, S. (2020). Teaching and the Experience of Disability: The Pedagogy of Ed Roberts. Revue Canadienne d’études Sur Le Handicap, 9(5), 464–488. https://doi.org/10.15353/cjds.v9i5.705