Mimi Khúc Mini Residency @ UBC: Our Ableist Syllabi: Toward an Access- and Care-Centered Classroom, or, Reading Our Syllabi for Filth

Our Ableist Syllabi: Toward an Access- and Care-Centered Classroom, or, Reading Our Syllabi for Filth

What if education was not a system of achievement and inculcation into hyperproductivity but a transformative care project? The pandemic has revealed the contours of unwellness in our universities as never before, making it clear that “business as usual” in our classrooms not only cannot serve the needs of our students but also actually contributes to their deepening experiences of unwellness. Dr. Mimi Khúc makes the case for the necessity of access- and care-centered teaching, offering this pedagogy workshop where participants will work together to explore what teaching might look like if care were our first learning objective. Bring your actual syllabi to this workshop where we will collectively conduct “access audits” to root out all the ways ableism creeps into our teaching and begin grounding our classrooms in collective care.

4-6pm

BuTo 225