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Facilitating Applied Learning In An Introductory Course On Exceptionalities Through A Student Choice Project, Heidi R. Cornell, Jennifer P. Stone Jun 2017

Facilitating Applied Learning In An Introductory Course On Exceptionalities Through A Student Choice Project, Heidi R. Cornell, Jennifer P. Stone

The Advocate

Many beginning teachers feel unprepared to teach students in their inclusive classrooms. Preservice teachers may need applied learning experiences, intentionally focused on understanding of individuals with disabilities as human rather than as their disability or label. This paper shares an applied learning project couched in the principles of Universal Design for learning completed by students in a course about disabilities. Two Student Choice Project examples are shared to demonstrate the process for completion and to provide preliminary evidence of how this project facilitated transformation of student perceptions, built awareness, and improved openness and objectivity in understanding individuals with disabilities.


Quiet Noise: Adult Education’S Silence On Disabilities, Carol Rogers-Shaw Jan 2017

Quiet Noise: Adult Education’S Silence On Disabilities, Carol Rogers-Shaw

Adult Education Research Conference

This literature review documents the omission of disability in adult education discourse on power distribution, access to education, and inclusion in educational settings and suggests ways to address this exclusion.


Mind The Gap: Student Researchers Use Secondary Data To Explore Disparities In Stem Education, Nathan Bean, Amanda Gnadt, Nicole Maupin, Sherry A. White, Lori Andersen Apr 2016

Mind The Gap: Student Researchers Use Secondary Data To Explore Disparities In Stem Education, Nathan Bean, Amanda Gnadt, Nicole Maupin, Sherry A. White, Lori Andersen

Prairie Journal of Educational Research

Large data sets offer opportunities for graduate students to become involved in meaningful research, but also comes with a unique set of challenges. This paper seeks to examine that relationship through utilizing the High School Longitudinal Study 2009 – representative of US ninth graders in 2009 (n = 21,444) – to examine a set of research questions about STEM interest and preparation amongst secondary students. Student researchers identified gaps in plans and outcomes with regards to race, gender, exceptionalities, and socioeconomic status. Findings indicated inequities that affect STEM outcomes. A significant interaction was found between students education expectations by gender …