| Author(s): | Danforth, S. |
| Date: | 2020 |
| Publication: | Canadian Journal of Disability Studies |
| Citation: | Danforth, S. (2020). Teaching and the experience of disability: The pedagogy of Ed Roberts. Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, 9(5), 464–488. https://doi.org/10.15353/cjds.v9i5.705 |
| Section on webpage: | Disability Pedagogy Literature |
| Tenets: | Considering alternative histories and narratives. Examining how gender, intersecting with other social categories, structures our lives, learning, and knowledge production, access to resources and information. Honoring diversity and lived experiences through intersectional approaches. |
| Annotation: | (Abstract) Ed Roberts was a renowned activist considered to be one of the founding leaders of the American disability rights movement. Although he engaged in numerous political strategies, his main form of activism was teaching in his prolific public speaking career across the United States and around the world. The content and methods of his pedagogy were crafted from his own personal experiences as a disabled man. His teaching featured autobiographic selections from his own life in which he fought and defeated forces of oppression and discrimination. This article examines Roberts’ disability rights teaching in relation to the experiential sources, political content, and teaching techniques. |