SJE2040H: Encounters in Disability Studies

This course explores the question: What relations between disability and disability studies are possible within social justice education? We will encounter disability and disability studies in universities and schools, government policy, workplaces including hospitals and policing, as well as in street life, personal and political relations. The course will consider disability in relation to injury, illness, healing, as well as life and death. Through these various encounters, we will learn to attend to the distinct ways that aspects of disability are interpreted and made to appear and disappear, especially when a call for social justice arises. There will be seminar discussions, presentations, and guest lectures where we will explore the place, production, and meaning of disability and disability studies in relation to social justice education.

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