Being an Elbow: A Phenomenological Autoethnography of Faculty-Student Collaboration for Accommodations |
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Authors: | Regina T P Aguirre Chad Duncan |
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Institution: | 1. School of Social Work , The University of Texas at Arlington , Arlington , Texas , USA rtpaguirre@uta.edu;3. School of Social Work , The University of Texas at Arlington , Arlington , Texas , USA |
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Abstract: | Hybrid and online courses and advances in assistive technologies make accommodating students with disabilities ever-changing, requiring innovation. This reality, coupled with students’ reluctance to disclose disabilities, points toward a need for replacing accommodations directed at those with disabilities with universal design whereby they become accessible to all—virtually eliminating the need for accommodations. In this paper, a master's of social work student (Chad) and his instructor (Regina) document their collaborations to revise a social work research course to meet his request for accommodations to make options more universally accessible. These revisions are done through reflections from both Chad and Regina from a phenomenological autoethnographic perspective—depicting their lived experiences. |
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Keywords: | teaching research universal design students with disabilities hybrid course online course technology in social work education |
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