Let the children have their say: Re-imaging pedagogy with visually impaired children

IAS Residential Fellow Professor Justin A. Haegele delivers a seminar on their research -

Visually impaired youth are often enrolled in integrated educational environments, specifically within physical education (PE), but seldom experience feelings of inclusion (acceptance, belonging, and value) within those spaces. Rather, they often identify experiencing issues with marginalization, discrimination, and ostracization within PE, and that pedagogical practices that are implemented within this educational space are perceived as inappropriate and belittling because they do not take their needs or opinions into consideration. To address these issues, this work-in-progress seminar will share research that aims to explore how visually impaired students experience specific pedagogical strategies and curricular content, and re-imagine PE for blind and visually impaired youth while co-producing resources with visually impaired youth to be disseminated to PE teachers support feelings of acceptance, belonging, and value. This study centralizes disabled people and their voices as critical parts of the research process, and is guided by the conceptual lens of inclusion as intersubjective experiences.

Arrivals from 11:45 am for a 12:00 noon start. For those joining in-person, lunch will be served after the seminar from 1:00pm.

This event is hybrid format, please use the required booking button at the bottom of the page to choose either in-person or online attendance.
(Please note that in-person spaces are limited and booking is required, so we can manage numbers for catering and also the space in the seminar room)

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