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Publication Date: 2022-Jan
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Accessibility4Equity: Cripping Technology-Mediated Compulsory Education through Sociotechnical Praxis
British Journal of Educational Technology, v53 n1 p77-92 Jan 2022
During COVID-19, technology has frequently mediated schools' emergency remote learning. Tragically, many of those technologies, despite legal requirements to the contrary, are inaccessible to disabled youth--a pattern of oppression within compulsory education that predates the pandemic by almost two decades and is rooted in ableism. In this paper, I advance a new interdisciplinary framework--Accessibility4Equity (A4E)--that integrates existing single-discipline theories to explain the messy interactions among human and non-human actors engaged in learning that is equitable and accessible to disabled youth within the context of compulsory education. A4E asserts that equitable technology-mediated education is (1) constructed by educators and disabled people collaboratively cripping discourse and practice through sociotechnical praxis, (2) born technologically and pedagogically accessible; and (3) requires institutions to have the capacity to cultivate access intimacy and swiftly respond to individual needs. Hence, A4E is a framework that scholars and practitioners can use to begin the complex social change that is required to disrupt the unjust status quo and reimagine technology-mediated compulsory education as a place that values and is hospitable to disabled youth.
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Accessibility (for Disabled), Educational Technology, Students with Disabilities, Distance Education, COVID-19, Pandemics, Equal Education, Compulsory Education, Access to Education
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