We can sometimes become more educated and more aware, but then it turns into kind of this transactional thing. That's why you are expecting shared responsibility from us as visually as disabled people to come up and educate us. And disability and language is another area in which I'm not going to really delve now because it will drift us away. It's about the attitude and barriers. We have come across it but we took much care about it. Right discourse can make it really different.
Yasser Tamer discusses ways of being intentionally inclusive on episode 477 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Students are not actually advised to memorize or even to learn a theory by heart, but they are advised to reflect.
-Yasser Tamer
Do whatever you are interested in.
-Yasser Tamer
Let students choose their own pathway.
-Yasser Tamer
It is equitable, but let’s make it more accessible.
-Yasser Tamer
Resources
- Cultivating Compassionate Community to Foster Academic Integrity? (with @YasserTammer), by Maha Bali
- Video: MYFest22 Syllabus Accessibility Jam with Alexandra Gazis and Yasser Tamer
- Video: The Experience of a Visually Impaired Student Yasser Tamer, The American University in Cairo, Egypt
- Business Model You: The One-Page Way to Reinvent Your Work at Any Stage, by Bruce Hazen, Timothy Clark, Alexander Osterwalder, Yves Pigneur, + Alan Smith*
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, by Stephen Covey*
- Soliya
- Intentionally Equitable Hospitality series through Equity Unbound
- Write Good ALT text
- Syllabus as Manifesto: A Critical Approach to Classroom Culture, by Adam Heidebrink-Bruno