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WHEN ARCHITECTURE DISABLES:TEACHING UNDERGRADUATES TO PERCEIVE ABLEISM IN THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT
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LIVINGSTON, KATHY. 2010. “WHEN ARCHITECTURE DISABLES:TEACHING UNDERGRADUATES TO PERCEIVE ABLEISM IN THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT”. TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology, April. Washington DC: American Sociological Association. https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/when-architecture-disablesteaching-undergraduates.

Abstract

This article describes an exercise in which students analyze architectural barriers in campus buildings to understand that people with disabilities are excluded from everyday social interaction. Sociological concepts such as deviance and discrimination prove elusive to students when merely studied from a textbook. Through this active learning exercise,...

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Subject Area(s):
Disabilities
Resource Type(s):
Assignment
Class Level(s):
College 300

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