Advancing anti-ableist pedagogy

Claire Penketh - Professor of Disability studies and art education.

Dyspraxia - a disability resulting in the lack of co-ordination.

How do we make quality judgements about drawing and co-ordination?

Students with dyspraxia are often described as immature

We will use the Social model of Disability: Disadvantaged by their environment.

Art is for ALL.

You have a legal obligation to meet the learning need of all students within the classroom.

Ableism - subtle discriminations about the ways that we assume what is normal in terms of ability

Disablism - overt discriminations against disabled poeple.

Ableist assumption examples:

- Attention consistency

- Audio/visual respondence

- Commute to school/ accessibility

- School uniform - tactile tasks

- Seating plan to accomodate visual impairedness

- Literacy with subject-specific language (acronyms etc)

Why advance anti-ableist language?

Art is one of the subjects that can embrace anti-ableism really effectively.

Art education is well placed to respond to and benefit from different abilities.

Helps to combat ableist practice, enabling equity , acceptance and excellence for all students.

Broad areas of needs

Sensory and Physical Engagement

Communications

Cognition

Metnal Health

Characteristics of Anti-Ableist pedagogy

Representation:

Curriculum includes a broad and inclusive range of cultural references; drawing on rtists that are also D/deaf, Disabled and neurodivergent and from different ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds.

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Applying antiableist pedagogy to expereince of lessons

Lesson:

- Putting students on the spot to defend their works - qualification of worth

Purpose of the lesson:

- Introduce practice to the tutors

Anti-ableist augments:

- change atmosphere and pressure of the task.

- ask students to prepare a presentation - adaptability of expression -

Children are expected to not have:

- social anxiety

- ability to cognitively structure thoughts under pressure

- visual ability - (are expected to have a catalog of visual work

- autism - do not appreciate being surprised by time-based tasks.

- mental health issues - self worth issues

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