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A Pedagogy Of Access Advocacy, Molly E. Ubbesen Aug 2020

A Pedagogy Of Access Advocacy, Molly E. Ubbesen

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A PEDAGOGY OF ACCESS ADVOCACY

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Molly E. Ubbesen

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2020

Under the Supervision of Professor Shevaun Watson

I propose “a pedagogy of access advocacy” for students and teachers based on practices developed in the first-year composition classroom. A pedagogy of access advocacy aims to destigmatize the access needs of students and teachers by inviting them to share and support each other’s needs and to center and celebrate the creation of collective access. This dissertation brings together theories and methodologies from composition, rhetoric, disability studies, teacher action research, and critical discourse analysis to examine student reflections …