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A Dissertation
Photo by Katerina on Unsplash Find and download A Pedagogy of One: Engaging the ‘missing middle’ toward inclusion in education in an open institutional repository because the openness of this matters. When ideas and content are being removed, those things that are open cannot be erased. The Internet is written in ink, especially the Open…
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A Pedagogy of One: Engaging the ‘missing middle’ toward inclusion in education
Committee:Kihong Ku, Thomas Jefferson University, USAChristopher Pastore, Thomas Jefferson University, USALizbeth Goodman, University College Dublin, IrelandBonnie Stewart, University of Windsor, Canada Jess Mitchell, Ph.D.SMARTlab Practice-Based PhD in Architecture and Design Research, Thomas Jefferson UniversityCC-BY 4.0 International I was motivated to do this thesis because I felt I was noticing something that was missing. Something was…
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Are we more divided now than ever?
We see it in our news feeds, our timelines, our email inboxes. They are all filled with loads of stories suggesting we are really, deeply divided. This comes to mind. Politics feel precarious. Wars, insurrections, and more. Gender, sex, bodies, abilities. Race, class, historical reckonings. Traffic! I yelled at a man driving through my neighbourhood…
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Can Trust be Built Online? A Journey Toward Creating Brave Spaces
You bet your boots it can. Early in the pandemic I read an article where someone claimed that trust could not be built online — that it was one of the rich ingredients of life we were missing with our new, quarantined existence. Meaningful connections, where trust is built and shared, the author claimed, weren’t…
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What is Co-design?
Maybe you’ve recently made a commitment to Inclusive Design. Maybe you’ve found yourself ‘behind’ in the ‘racial awakening’ — maybe you’ve been asleep and missed the awakening of the last hundreds of years. No matter! Now you’re working toward inclusion — you understand it’s an important piece of moving forward: you simply can’t check your…
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An Attempt to Disrupt Education (Part 3)
In those first few moments we had done a lot of behind-the-scenes work. You see, in those first moments there is a special opportunity. That is when we either reconcile ourselves to ‘the ways things are expected to be done’ or we commit to doing it differently: we are either complicit or we insist on…
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An Attempt to Disrupt Education (part 2)
All of the details mattered: the door I entered, the hoodie sweatshirt I was wearing, my nervousness, my first time on campus and in this room, that split second first impression — this is the context in which we all began something. There were slightly more than 20 of us. The students weren’t quite sure…
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An Attempt to Disrupt Education
Part 1 I was nervous. It was the first day of class. I dutifully got there 15 minutes early and sat outside the classroom — thinking of just how to make a good first impression while feeling my heartbeat hard in my chest. The class was scheduled to start at 7. I slowly entered the…
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Popularity, Righteousness and Ethics in the time of Coronavirus
Do we cancel? Should we go anyway? Should we cancel in-person classes? Should we go online? Should we go into the office? Should we encourage remote work? How many people together is too many? Is it time to be deciders? How will we know when it’s the right time to decide? Who will decide?? It’s…
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Binaries, boxes, the grid and sorting — an exploration through habit, form, function, art, and philosophy
So, I want to tell a story of a pretty pivotal moment in my life. I went to University in ‘the city that care forgot’. I knew next to nothing about the place, but I knew that in March, when my hometown in Missouri was a mix of mud and snow and filth, the magnolias…