Open AccessUniversal Design: Places to Start
Author(s) -
Jay Dolmage
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
disability studies quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2159-8371
pISSN - 1041-5718
DOI - 10.18061/dsq.v35i2.4632
Subject(s) - universal design , cognitive reframing , universal design for learning , listing (finance) , computer science , sociology , engineering ethics , human–computer interaction , epistemology , world wide web , psychology , pedagogy , engineering , social psychology , business , philosophy , finance
Beginning with a series of possible ways to introduce an essay on Universal Design for Learning, this contribution instead resolves to offer a long listing or inventory of different places to start implementing Universal Design in classroom settings. The goal is to reframe Universal Design away from checklists and reductive formulas and towards more critical, problematized and active forms of engagement or "ways to move." The long archive is also offered through a linked Wiki which provides a place to add ideas, respond to those already offered, and suggest ways that access needs might collide.