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Access Needs: Centering Students and Disrupting Ableist Norms in STEM
This essay describes the concept of access needs as a tool for improving accessibility in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education broadly, from the classroom, to research group meetings, to professional conferences. The normalization of stating access needs and creating ac...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8715803/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34460293 http://dx.doi.org/10.1187/cbe.21-01-0017 |
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description | This essay describes the concept of access needs as a tool for improving accessibility in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education broadly, from the classroom, to research group meetings, to professional conferences. The normalization of stating access needs and creating access check-ins is a regular practice used in disability justice activist circles, but it has not yet been normalized in STEM education spaces. Just as normalizing the use of pronouns has been an important step for supporting gender justice, we argue that normalizing access talk is an important step for advancing disability justice in STEM fields. Moreover, we argue that all individuals have access needs, regardless of whether they are disabled or nondisabled. We provide concrete suggestions and techniques that STEM educators can use today. |
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spelling | pubmed-87158032022-01-10 Access Needs: Centering Students and Disrupting Ableist Norms in STEM Reinholz, Daniel L. Ridgway, Samantha W. CBE Life Sci Educ Essay This essay describes the concept of access needs as a tool for improving accessibility in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education broadly, from the classroom, to research group meetings, to professional conferences. The normalization of stating access needs and creating access check-ins is a regular practice used in disability justice activist circles, but it has not yet been normalized in STEM education spaces. Just as normalizing the use of pronouns has been an important step for supporting gender justice, we argue that normalizing access talk is an important step for advancing disability justice in STEM fields. Moreover, we argue that all individuals have access needs, regardless of whether they are disabled or nondisabled. We provide concrete suggestions and techniques that STEM educators can use today. American Society for Cell Biology 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC8715803/ /pubmed/34460293 http://dx.doi.org/10.1187/cbe.21-01-0017 Text en © 2021 D. L. Reinholz and S. W. Ridgway. CBE—Life Sciences Education © 2021 The American Society for Cell Biology. “ASCB®” and “The American Society for Cell Biology®” are registered trademarks of The American Society for Cell Biology. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/This article is distributed by The American Society for Cell Biology under license from the author(s). It is available to the public under an Attribution–Noncommercial–Share Alike 3.0 Unported Creative Commons License. |
spellingShingle | Essay Reinholz, Daniel L. Ridgway, Samantha W. Access Needs: Centering Students and Disrupting Ableist Norms in STEM |
title | Access Needs: Centering Students and Disrupting Ableist Norms in STEM |
title_full | Access Needs: Centering Students and Disrupting Ableist Norms in STEM |
title_fullStr | Access Needs: Centering Students and Disrupting Ableist Norms in STEM |
title_full_unstemmed | Access Needs: Centering Students and Disrupting Ableist Norms in STEM |
title_short | Access Needs: Centering Students and Disrupting Ableist Norms in STEM |
title_sort | access needs: centering students and disrupting ableist norms in stem |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8715803/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34460293 http://dx.doi.org/10.1187/cbe.21-01-0017 |
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