Mind Map Assignment
Submitted by Lillian Ghorbani, Undergraduate Academic Assistant, Department of Political Science, Faculty of Arts, UBC Vancouver. Materials: Attribution and Use: This use case is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0 Purpose This activity helps students visually organize and connect ideas, reinforcing their understanding of key concepts (or learning principles). It supports diverse learners by offering an alternative way to process and represent information. Mind maps […]
Dolmage, J. T. (2017). Academic ableism: Disability and higher education.
Jay Dolmage argues that universities are built on ableist logics. He illustrates this through the familiar image of “steep steps” at campus entrances, a design that blocks access both materially and metaphorically. For Dolmage, “the ideology of the steep steps persists” (p. 2). In this framing, nondisabled scholars are positioned “inside” (p. 2) while “disability […]
Group Work Reflection
Submitted by: Lillian Ghorbani, Undergraduate Academic Assistant, Department of Political Science, Faculty of Arts, UBC Vancouver. Jasmine Manango, Undergraduate Academic Assistant, Institute for Gender, Race, and Social Justice, Faculty of Arts, UBC Vancouver. Materials: Attribution and Use: This use case is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0 Purpose This reflective activity invites students to examine how groupwork was framed, how roles and responsibilities were distributed, and how these factors […]
Boston University. (2021). Accessible approaches to the writing classroom.
This guide, published by Boston University’s Writing Program, outlines practical strategies for building inclusive and accessible writing classrooms. It emphasizes that instructors should not “put the responsibility for determining accommodations entirely on students with disabilities, or on Disability & Access Services” but instead act as “an active partner in making [the] classroom and the entire […]
Selfe, C.L. & Howes, F. (n.d.). Over there: Disability studies and composition.
Selfe and Howes argue that integrating disability studies into writing pedagogy is an ethical and necessary practice that benefits all students. Situated within the field of composition studies, their collaborative webpage functions as both a conceptual argument and an enacted model of accessible scholarship. Drawing on Margaret Price, they note that when writing courses are […]
Collaborative Writing, Team Resilience, and Team Contracts
Submitted by Dr. Rebecca Carruthers den Hoed, Chair of WRDS, and Assistant Professor of Teaching, School of Journalism, Writing, and Media, Faculty of Arts, UBC Vancouver. Materials: Attribution and Use: This use case is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0 Context This activity is designed for a first year writing class that focuses on writing. The […]
Collaborative Writing Scripts
Submitted by Dr. Rebecca Caruthers den Hoed, Assistant Professor of Teaching, School of Journalism, Writing, and Media, Faculty of Arts, UBC Vancouver. Materials: Attribution and Use: This use case is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0 This activity is designed for a first year writing class that focuses on writing. The course is centrally concerned with […]
Building in Slack
Submitted by Jennifer Walsh Marr, Lecturer, Vantage College, Faculty of Applied Science, School of Engineering, UBC Vancouver. Attribution and Use: This use case is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0 Years ago my New Year’s resolution was to “build in more slack”. At home, that means doubling a recipe to put one in the freezer for those […]