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Reading schedule
Meeting 92: 17 Jan 2025, 3-4.30pm UK
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Topic: Teaching and lived disability experience
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Reading 1 (main): Anderson, Robert C. (2006). "Teaching (with) disability: Pedagogies of lived experience". The Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies, 28(3-4), pp.367-379. [Paywall access]
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Reading 2 (extra 3pp): Michael, A. (2020). "Embodying dialogue: Teaching disability and ability in a time of crisis". Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, 36(1), pp.167-169. [Open access]
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Meeting 94: 21 Feb 2025, 3-4.30pm UK
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Topic: Internalised ableism in academia
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Reading: Leigh, Jennifer, & Brown, Nicole. (2020). "Internalised ableism: Of the political and the personal". In: Nicole Brown & Jennifer S Leigh (Eds), Ableism in Academia: Theorising Disabilities and Chronic Illnesess in Higher Education (pp.164-181). London: UCL Press.
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Meeting 96: 21 Mar 2025, 3-4.30pm UK
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Topic: Black Disability Studies Pedagogy
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Reading: Dunhamn, Jane, Harris, Jerome, Jarrett, Shancia, et al. (2015). "Developing and reflecting on a Black Disability Studies Pedagogy: Work from the National Black Disability Coalition". Disability Studies Quarterly, 35(2). https://dsq-sds.org/article/view/4637/3933
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Meeting 98: 18 Apr 2025, 3-4.30pm UK
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Topic: ADHD hauntology in education
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Reading: Rojas-Navarro, Sebastián, Alarcón-Arcos, Samanta, & Tabilo-Prieto, Ismael. (2024). "Spectralities of ADHD: hauntological diagnosis amidst agency, politics and pedagogies". Health Sociology Review, 1-15. [Open access]
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Meeting 100: 16 May 2025, 3-4.30pm UK
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Topic: Goodness as ideological property in schools
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Reading: Broderick, Alicia A, & Leonardo, Zeus. (2015). "What a good boy. The deployment and distribution of 'goodness' as ideological property in schools". In: Subini Ancy Annamma, David J Connor & Beth A Ferri (Eds), DisCrit: Disability Studies and Critical Race Theory in Education: Teachers College Press.
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Meeting 102: 20 Jun 2025, 3-4.30pm UK
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Topic: Disability and epistemic access during the pandemic
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Reading: Ndlovu, Sibonokuhle. (2022). "The pedagogic domain and epistemic access in South African higher education: The challenges for students with disabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic". South African journal of higher education, 36(4), 205-224. [Open access]
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Meeting 104: 18 Jul 2025, 3-4.30pm UK
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Topic: Neuroqueer non-arrival in the classroom
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Reading: Acevedo, Sara M. (2021). "Lifelines: a neuroqueer politics of non-arrival in an undergraduate disability studies classroom". International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 1-15. [Paywall access]
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Meeting 106: 15 Aug 2025, 3-4.30pm UK
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Topic: Disability as a Teaching Method
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Reading: McKinney, Claire. (2016). "Cripping the Classroom: Disability as a Teaching Method in the Humanities". Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy, 25(2), 114-127. [Open access]
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Meeting 108: 19 Sep 2025, 3-4.30pm UK
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Topic: Unlearning and Mad Studies as pedagogical praxis
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Reading: Snyder, Sarah N, Pitt, Kendra-Ann, Shanouda, Fady, et al. (2019). "Unlearning through Mad Studies: Disruptive pedagogical praxis". Curriculum Inquiry, 49(4), 485-502. [Open access]
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Meeting 110: 17 Oct 2025, 3-4.30pm UK
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Topic: Transformative Anti-Ableist Pedagogy
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Reading: Podlucká, Dušana. (2020). "Transformative Anti-Ableist Pedagogy for Social Justice". Outlines. Critical Practice Studies, 21(1), 69-97. [Open access]
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Meeting 112: 21 Nov 2025, 3-4.30pm UK
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Topic: Decolonizing ableist pedagogy
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Reading: Novsima, Isabella. (2023). "Decolonizing ableist pedagogy: A communal work of delinking and crippling". International Review of Mission, 112(2), 267-282. [Paywall access]
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Meeting 114: 19 Dec 2025, 3-4.30pm UK
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Topic: Trigger warnings and teaching with trauma
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Reading: Carter, Angela M. (2015). "Teaching with trauma: Trigger warnings, feminism, and disability pedagogy". Disability Studies Quarterly, 35(2). https://dsq-sds.org/index.php/dsq/article/view/4652/3935
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Cripping Pedagogy Reading Group:
Cripping, Sickening, Neurodiversifying & Maddening Pedagogy
(2025: this reading group has not yet started)
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The Cripping Pedagogy Reading Group: Cripping, Sickening, Neurodiversifying & Maddening Pedagogy will take place on the 3rd Friday of the month in 2025 (always 3-4.30pm).​
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In 2025, the Eco-ability Reading Group and the Cripping Pedagogy Reading Group (this one) will run in parallel. Download the 2025 schedules of both RGs here.
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Further reading suggestions
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Find here suggestions of texts we have already read in previous reading groups and that touch on on pedagogy, education, and schools & HEIs:
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Annamma, Subini Ancy. (2017). The Pedagogy of Pathologization: Dis/abled Girls of Color in the School-prison Nexus. Routledge. [Disability RG: 31 Jul 2020 (further reading)]
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Ben-Moshe, Liat. (2020). Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition. U of Minnesota Press. [Disability RG: 31 Jul 2020 (further reading)]
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Erevelles, Nirmala. (2014). "Crippin’ Jim Crow: Disability, Dis-Location, and the School-to-Prison Pipeline". In: Liat Ben-Moshe, Ysanne Chapman & Alison C. Carey (Eds), Disability incarcerated: Imprisonment and Disability in the United States and Canada (pp.81-99): Palgrave Macmillan. [Disability RG: 31 Jul 2020]
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Kent, Hope, Kirby, Amanda, Hogarth, Lee, et al. (2023). "School to prison pipelines: Associations between school exclusion, neurodisability and age of first conviction in male prisoners". Forensic Science International: Mind and Law, 4, 100123. [ADHD RG: 6 Dec 2024]
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Lewis, Chantelle Jessica, & Arday, Jason. (2023). "We’ll see things they’ll never see: Sociological reflections on race, neurodiversity and higher education". The Sociological Review, 71(6), 1299-1321. [ADHD RG: 20 Sep 2024]
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Lewis, Chantelle (2021). “Episode 13 Apr 2021: Black women, education & neurodiversity” (interview by Chantelle Lewis with Vivienne Isebor, co-founder of ADHD Babes), Surviving Society podcast, https://soundcloud.com/user-622675754/e121-the-surviving-society-alternative-to-womans-hour-adhd-babes [ADHD RG: 20 Sep 2024]
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Liasidou, Anastasia. (2012). "Inclusive education and critical pedagogy at the intersections of disability, race, gender and class". Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 10(1), 168-184. [Neurodiversity RG: 16 Apr 2021]
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Roscigno, Robin. (2019). "Neuroqueerness as fugitive practice: Reading against the grain of Applied Behavioral Analysis scholarship". Educational Studies, 55(4), 405-419. [Neurodiversity RG: 21 May 2021]
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Sjöberg, Mattias Nilsson. (2018). "Toward a militant pedagogy in the name of love: On psychiatrization of indifference, neurobehaviorism and the diagnosis of ADHD—A Philosophical Intervention". Studies in Philosophy and Education, 37(4), 329-346. [Neurodiversity RG: 21 Mar 2021]
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Veck, Wayne. (2012). "Reflecting on attention-deficient hyperactivity disorder and disablement in education with Eric Fromm". Disability & Society, 27(2), 263-275. [ADHD RG: 3 Jun 2022]
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Wolframe, PhebeAnn Marjory. (2012). "The madwoman in the academy, or, revealing the invisible straightjacket: Theorizing and teaching saneism and sane privilege". Disability Studies Quarterly, 33(1). Available at https://dsq-sds.org/article/view/3425/3200 [Neurodiversity RG: 18 Sep 2020]
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Woodfield, Casey L, Katherine, Vroman, Seybert, Jenn, et al. (2020). "“It would be simpler to see success without dominating discourse of ability”". Critical Education, 11(14), 31-53. [Neurodiversity RG: 16 Jul 2021]
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