Learning for Sustainability: Anti-ableism in Education

This session responds to the pervasive ableism in educational settings, reflected in structural inequalities, such as the low representation of disabled people in the education workforce. Supporting educators who report that they don't feel confident talking about disability in the classroom. In this webinar, chartered psychologists Drs. Sian Jones and Clare Uytman, from Queen Margeret University Edinburgh, will share their research and resources. These free and accessible resources have been co-created with invested stakeholders for use in schools and community settings, mapped to the Curriculum for Excellence.

This session is also intended to increase confidence in talking about disability with diverse learners and developing their own disability literacy knowledge and skills. The resources are intended to help educators to introduce the topic of ableism as a human rights concern, to offer reflection and insight, and to foster constructive conversations about disability inequality with children; designed to directly tackle representation and understanding of disability through play and imagination as supported by previous research.

Further information is available on their website: https://qmutoyboxdiversitylab.com/

In this session, practitioners will:

· Explore the impact of ableism across educational settings.

· Develop an understanding of disability literacy and the tools to gain confidence as an anti-ableist educator.

· Draw the links between the UNCRC, anti-ableism and disability inequality.

· Explore key resources to support educators adopt this approach through play and imagination.

· Be signposted to a range of co-created resources backed by research.

Our courses are highly interactive, both to model the participatory global citizenship approach, and also so we can introduce activities and methodologies for use in the classroom. This course will make use of breakout rooms and simple digital participation tools (all necessary instructions will be given). It can be hard to participate fully on a phone or tablet, so we highly recommend you join the course on a desktop or laptop computer, with your microphone and video enabled.

If you have particular access needs, please contact us at helen@scotdec.org.uk so we can work together to create as positive an experience for you as we can.

We have designed this course to be engaging, relevant and thought-provoking. Please join the course in a reasonably quiet place if possible, and do what you can to bring your full participation and focus to the session.

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