College Composition and Communication Feb 2017

Teaching Is Accommodation: Universally Designing Composition Classrooms and Syllabi

Anne-Marie Womack

Abstract

This article theorizes teaching as accommodation and argues for a centering of disability in writing pedagogy. It examines how universal design can improve composition classrooms, applying inclusive principles to the syllabus in particular.

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College Composition and Communication
Published
2017-02-01
DOI
10.58680/ccc201728964
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writing pedagogy teacher development disability studies
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