Joanne Weber
Biographic Data
| ID | 3937224 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joanne Weber |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joanne |
| FAMILY NAME | Weber |
| SIGNATURE | WEBER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alberta |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6031-2802 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Story dramas: An exploratory study toward a deaf-led arts-integration model
This paper examines the ontological, axiological, and epistemological commitments of a deaf-led team, which informs their implementation of story dramas with deaf preschoolers in a Western Canadian preschool. A bimodal bilingual teaching team co-constructed a story drama delivery model for deaf children based on training provided by the researcher to the instructional staff at the preschool. The training presented story drama interventions origin…
Exploring Deaf Aesthetics as Spatial-Geometric Thinking, Acting, and Feeling: A Case Study
Spatial skills, while vital to STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) and STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics) fields, are fundamental to understanding all mathematics. Yet the absence of spatial development in elementary curricula, particularly geometry, where such skills can be deeply explored, is compounded by a lack of theoretical and empirical research, especially in deaf education, where little r…
Tracking Deaf Aesthetics in Deaf Spaces: Dramaturgical Decisions for Plays and Dance Theatre Works by Deaf-Led Teams
Dramaturgy for plays featuring scripts developed with deaf actors, or by deaf playwrights, brings a layered and complex set of considerations about increasing accessibility in theatre productions for the cast, crew, and audience. These considerations include (1) making deliberate decisions about the languages the actors use; (2) addressing linguistic repertoires of the audience; (3) supporting or expanding sensory repertoires; (4) discussing the …
Applied deaf aesthetics toward transforming deaf higher education
Deaf aesthetics is a theoretical framework we actualized to enhance interactions in deaf education, particularly via multimodal pedagogy and curricular experiences. Prior research illustrates that deaf aesthetics are desired by deaf teachers and students who are deaf; however, most instructional-delivery formats lack these supports. The present mixed-methodology, multi-method case study is an empirical evaluation of how deaf aesthetics contribute…
Deaf to Deaf (Dispatch)
Making Multiple Deaf Worlds Intelligible: A Posthumanist Arts-based Cartography of Apple Time
In this paper, I provide an arts-based posthumanist cartography of a theatre play, Apple Time performed by deaf youth in Regina, Saskatchewan. This play was co-constructed by deaf youth performers, two deaf adults, a hearing teacher, and a hearing director. Apple Time premiered in Regina, Saskatchewan on June 2, 2018, and was remounted again at the Globe Theatre (Regina) in February 2019 and again at the SoundOff Festival in Edmonton, Alberta. Th…
Dinner Table Experience in the Flyover Provinces: A Bricolage of Rural Deaf and Disabled Artistry in Saskatchewan
Dinner table experience" describes the uniquely crip affect evoked by deaf and disabled people's childhood memories of sitting at the dinner table, witnessing conversations unfolding around them, but without them. Drawing on 11 prairie-based deaf and/or disabled artists' dinner table experiences, four researcher-artivist authors map a critical bricolage of prairie-based deaf and disabled art from the viewpoint of a metaphorical dinner table set u…
Please Pass the Translanguaging: The Dinner Table Experience in the Lives of Newcomer Canadian Deaf Youth and Their Families
While translanguaging occurs in the homes of deaf people and their hearing family members who do not sign or possess limited signing skills, in this article we argue that translanguaging alone does not explain the complex, domestic-sphere language experiences of three young, newcomer artists in Saskatchewan, Canada. We frame our inquiry around the "dinner table experience" phenomenon, wherein deaf family members receive partial or little access t…
Cyborgs and Fox Wives: Interrogating Sign Language Ideologies and Moving Toward Survival, Resistance and Resilience
Using an arts based posthumanist lens, (Deleuze & Guattari, 1987; jagodzinski & Wallin, 2013) I examine my evolving beliefs about American Sign Language (ASL) through the analysis of arts based data (poetry) (Leavy, 2015). Central to my analysis is an examination of Western domination and control of the language used by ‘othered’ communities through the imposition of dualisms, binaries and categories in sign language ideologies (Canagarajah, 2013…
Commentary: Shapes and Sites of Deaf People’s Transinstitutionalization
This commentary describes our perspective on transinstitutionalization as deaf teachers and researchers from different regions of Canada, and accounts for some of the ways in which transinstitutionalization manifests in the lives of deaf people, particularly in educational settings. In the present day, so-called inclusive education is often presented as the progressive alternative to institutionalization, or deaf schools. However, mainstream educ…
"We Make Art, Too": A Panel Discussion on Disability Art and Activism on the Canadian Prairies
On November 28, 2019, a group of sixty or so people gathered in a sunny room at the University of Regina for the Disability Artivism in the Flyover Provinces symposium. The purpose of the event was to gather artists, students, and community members and arts organization representatives for collaborative reflection on the state of disability, deaf, and mad arts in the prairie provinces
Dinner Table Experience in the Flyover Provinces: A Bricolage of Rural Deaf and Disabled Artistry in Saskatchewan
Dinner table experience" describes the uniquely crip affect evoked by deaf and disabled people's childhood memories of sitting at the dinner table, witnessing conversations unfolding around them, but without them. Drawing on 11 prairie-based deaf and/or disabled artists' dinner table experiences, four researcher-artivist authors map a critical bricolage of prairie-based deaf and disabled art from the viewpoint of a metaphorical dinner table set u…
Making Multiple Deaf Worlds Intelligible: A Posthumanist Arts-based Cartography of Apple Time
In this paper, I provide an arts-based posthumanist cartography of a theatre play, Apple Time performed by deaf youth in Regina, Saskatchewan. This play was co-constructed by deaf youth performers, two deaf adults, a hearing teacher, and a hearing director. Apple Time premiered in Regina, Saskatchewan on June 2, 2018, and was remounted again at the Globe Theatre (Regina) in February 2019 and again at the SoundOff Festival in Edmonton, Alberta. Th…
Please Pass the Translanguaging: The Dinner Table Experience in the Lives of Newcomer Canadian Deaf Youth and Their Families
While translanguaging occurs in the homes of deaf people and their hearing family members who do not sign or possess limited signing skills, in this article we argue that translanguaging alone does not explain the complex, domestic-sphere language experiences of three young, newcomer artists in Saskatchewan, Canada. We frame our inquiry around the "dinner table experience" phenomenon, wherein deaf family members receive partial or little access t…
Commentary: Shapes and Sites of Deaf People’s Transinstitutionalization
This commentary describes our perspective on transinstitutionalization as deaf teachers and researchers from different regions of Canada, and accounts for some of the ways in which transinstitutionalization manifests in the lives of deaf people, particularly in educational settings. In the present day, so-called inclusive education is often presented as the progressive alternative to institutionalization, or deaf schools. However, mainstream educ…
"We Make Art, Too": A Panel Discussion on Disability Art and Activism on the Canadian Prairies
On November 28, 2019, a group of sixty or so people gathered in a sunny room at the University of Regina for the Disability Artivism in the Flyover Provinces symposium. The purpose of the event was to gather artists, students, and community members and arts organization representatives for collaborative reflection on the state of disability, deaf, and mad arts in the prairie provinces
Cyborgs and Fox Wives: Interrogating Sign Language Ideologies and Moving Toward Survival, Resistance and Resilience
Using an arts based posthumanist lens, (Deleuze & Guattari, 1987; jagodzinski & Wallin, 2013) I examine my evolving beliefs about American Sign Language (ASL) through the analysis of arts based data (poetry) (Leavy, 2015). Central to my analysis is an examination of Western domination and control of the language used by ‘othered’ communities through the imposition of dualisms, binaries and categories in sign language ideologies (Canagarajah, 2013…
Dinner Table Experience in the Flyover Provinces: A Bricolage of Rural Deaf and Disabled Artistry in Saskatchewan
Dinner table experience" describes the uniquely crip affect evoked by deaf and disabled people's childhood memories of sitting at the dinner table, witnessing conversations unfolding around them, but without them. Drawing on 11 prairie-based deaf and/or disabled artists' dinner table experiences, four researcher-artivist authors map a critical bricolage of prairie-based deaf and disabled art from the viewpoint of a metaphorical dinner table set u…
Please Pass the Translanguaging: The Dinner Table Experience in the Lives of Newcomer Canadian Deaf Youth and Their Families
While translanguaging occurs in the homes of deaf people and their hearing family members who do not sign or possess limited signing skills, in this article we argue that translanguaging alone does not explain the complex, domestic-sphere language experiences of three young, newcomer artists in Saskatchewan, Canada. We frame our inquiry around the "dinner table experience" phenomenon, wherein deaf family members receive partial or little access t…
Applied deaf aesthetics toward transforming deaf higher education
Deaf aesthetics is a theoretical framework we actualized to enhance interactions in deaf education, particularly via multimodal pedagogy and curricular experiences. Prior research illustrates that deaf aesthetics are desired by deaf teachers and students who are deaf; however, most instructional-delivery formats lack these supports. The present mixed-methodology, multi-method case study is an empirical evaluation of how deaf aesthetics contribute…
Deaf to Deaf (Dispatch)
Making Multiple Deaf Worlds Intelligible: A Posthumanist Arts-based Cartography of Apple Time
In this paper, I provide an arts-based posthumanist cartography of a theatre play, Apple Time performed by deaf youth in Regina, Saskatchewan. This play was co-constructed by deaf youth performers, two deaf adults, a hearing teacher, and a hearing director. Apple Time premiered in Regina, Saskatchewan on June 2, 2018, and was remounted again at the Globe Theatre (Regina) in February 2019 and again at the SoundOff Festival in Edmonton, Alberta. Th…
Tracking Deaf Aesthetics in Deaf Spaces: Dramaturgical Decisions for Plays and Dance Theatre Works by Deaf-Led Teams
Dramaturgy for plays featuring scripts developed with deaf actors, or by deaf playwrights, brings a layered and complex set of considerations about increasing accessibility in theatre productions for the cast, crew, and audience. These considerations include (1) making deliberate decisions about the languages the actors use; (2) addressing linguistic repertoires of the audience; (3) supporting or expanding sensory repertoires; (4) discussing the …
Story dramas: An exploratory study toward a deaf-led arts-integration model
This paper examines the ontological, axiological, and epistemological commitments of a deaf-led team, which informs their implementation of story dramas with deaf preschoolers in a Western Canadian preschool. A bimodal bilingual teaching team co-constructed a story drama delivery model for deaf children based on training provided by the researcher to the instructional staff at the preschool. The training presented story drama interventions origin…
Exploring Deaf Aesthetics as Spatial-Geometric Thinking, Acting, and Feeling: A Case Study
Spatial skills, while vital to STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) and STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics) fields, are fundamental to understanding all mathematics. Yet the absence of spatial development in elementary curricula, particularly geometry, where such skills can be deeply explored, is compounded by a lack of theoretical and empirical research, especially in deaf education, where little r…
Hearing Impairment and Communication (9 works) · Linguistics (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Deaf education (4 works) · Sign language (4 works) · The arts (4 works) · Visual arts (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works)