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Who is Disabled? The Social Construction of Disabled Bodies in Embodied Activity
Vickery, M. (2023). Who is Disabled? The Social Construction of Disabled Bodies in Embodied Activity. Proceedings of the 18th Annual Meeting of the International Society of the Learning Sciences. Annual Meeting of the International Society of the Learning Sciences, Montreal, Canada.
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This exploratory review dissects the social and cultural construction of bodily ideals and ‘disabled bodies’ in embodied learning spaces by drawing on an interdisciplinary corpus of literature. First, this paper attends to the limitations of current embodied learning scholarship and explores notions of the many sociocultural and institutional pressures that shape youth’s bodies in the habitus of both modern-day schooling with attention to how learning environments ‘disable’ and ‘enable’ students whose bodies fit the hegemonic bodily ideal.
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Re-Mediating Technology-Facilitated Embodied Activities at a Summer Camp for Youth with Disabilities
Vickery, M. (2023). Re-Mediating Technology-Facilitated Embodied Activities at a Summer Camp for Youth with Disabilities. Proceedings of the 18th Annual Meeting of the International Society of the Learning Sciences. Annual Meeting of the International Society of the Learning Sciences, Montreal, Canada.
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This paper describes the implementation of technology-facilitated collective embodied modeling activities at a reverse-inclusion summer camp for children with moderate/severe disabilities impacting communication. Video data of camper interactions, paraprofessional debrief audio data, and researcher field notes were analyzed revealing three barriers to participation unique to children with disabilities in embodied learning activity design: (1) issues of abstraction/overstimulation, (2) needs for control/routine/choice, and (3) limited motivation for collaboration. Each of these barriers is conceptualized as dis/enabling elements of the activity design and informed a set of re-mediations in the activity design.
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