Creating Disability-Affirming Classroom Environments

Creating Disability-Affirming Classroom Environments

Do you want to create safe, joyful and inclusive classroom environments where all students thrive? Australian classrooms are increasingly diverse and complex, partly due to the rising prevalence and awareness of disability. In this session, we will discuss ways to design disability-affirming, ethically grounded and research-informed teaching practices using universal design for learning so that all students can learn and be successful together.

Facilitator: 

Dr Natalie Thompson is a lecturer in Education in the Faculty of Arts and Education at Charles Sturt. Natalie’s research focuses on critical education theories, literacies, disability and inclusion. Through her work she aims to promotes dialogue on education as a public good, the purpose of education and the relationship between pedagogy and politics.