Equity Committee Webinar

The STLHESAPES Equity Committee is pleased to announce its “Equity and / in the Classroom” webinar series for this year. In this series, presenters will engage participants in a number of issues related to equity and inclusion in both curriculum and classroom practices.

Date/Time: Thursday, December 12, 1:00 PM ET

Title: “Inclusive Teaching and Learning: What I Have Learned From My Students” —a presentation by Dr. Cynthia Bruce, Concordia University

Description: Inclusive teaching and learning is often conceptualized in terms of strategies and techniques for teaching and assessment. My research with disabled students has highlighted relationships as equally important. Interestingly, my time in the classroom with a diversity of learners has made me rethink much of what I thought I knew; and in this talk, I will share some of the profound learning that has emerged from teaching and learning spaces.

Presenter: Cynthia Bruce is an Associate Professor of Music Therapy and Chair of the Department of Creative Arts Therapies at Concordia University in Montreal. As a blind activist scholar working at the intersection of Critical Disability Studies, Music Therapy, and education, she works to mobilize lived disability knowledge to expose systemic inequity and formulate more just approaches to research and practice. She focuses on accessibility in higher education and self-advocacy as essential lived knowledge that can generate deep understandings of inequity and elucidate possibilities for progressive change. Dr. Bruce recently co-led the development of a comprehensive set of recommendations for an accessibility standard in education in Nova Scotia and is a collaborator with the Canadian Accessibility Network.