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Cross-Pollinating Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy and Universal Design for Learning

Toward an Inclusive Pedagogy That Accounts for Dis/Ability

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ID23324828
AuthorsFederico R Waitoller (0000-0002-7051-4328, University of Illinois Chicago), Kathleen King Thorius (0000-0001-9953-0180, Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis), Kathleen A King Thorius
Year2016
Volume86
Issue3
Pages366-389
Publication date2016-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueHarvard Educational Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0017-8055 • E-ISSN: 1943-5045
PublisherHarvard Education Publishing Group (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.17763/1943-5045-86.3.366
OpenAlexW2520758566
LanguageEN
Citations received97
References cited42

In this article, Federico R. Waitoller and Kathleen A. King Thorius extend recent discussions on culturally sustaining pedagogy (CSP) in order to explicitly account for student dis/ability. The authors engage in this work as part of an inclusive education agenda. Toward this aim, they discuss how CSP and universal design for learning will benefit from cross-pollination and then conclude by suggesting interdisciplinary dialogue as a means to building emancipatory pedagogies that attend to intersecting markers of difference (e.g., dis/ability, class, gender, race, language, and ethnicity).

Class (philosophy) · Epistemology · Ethnic group · Pedagogy · Race (biology) · Sociology · Universal Design for Learning · Anthropology · Critical Race Theory in Education · Gender Studies · Global Educational Policies and Reforms · Psychology · Teacher Education and Leadership Studies

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