Tag: education
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An Open Framework For Neuroqueer Learning Spaces
In Neuroqueer Heresies, Nick Walker (2021) describes embracing neuroqueering as a verb. When considering Neuroqueer Learning Spaces, we need to reinterpret, rethink, redefine, and reimagine what those spaces may look like and the journey required to be able to facilitate them. We are considering whether we can use the template Walker created for designing autism courses as a template for…
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A Short Rumination on Our Journey to Neuroqueer Learning Spaces
We fought for the right to learn differently, and lost. The journey was instructive. We found ourselves along the way. We found community among other neurodivergent and disabled people. We found vocabulary, vocabulary like “neurodiversity”, “neurodivergent”, “neurotypical”, and, more recently, “neuroqueer”. …intentionally liberating oneself from the culturally ingrained and enforced performance of neuronormativity can be…
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Concision and Why Sheets
Chomsky uses the term concision to discuss the way mainstream media outlets respond to power. Having concision means that ideas which align with forces of power in our society need no explanation and those that do not align with those forces of power need significant explanation. This allows the narrative of the “state religion” to…
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The Path to Equity Begins with Neuroqueer-Sensitive Learning Spaces
If you tell me where or how to sit, I’m unlikely to do either. If you tell me that I can’t leave a room, I will leave – absent serious restraints – and I won’t come back. If you cover up the windows, or if there are no windows, I will leave and not come…
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Neuroqueering Learning Spaces: An Exploration
This piece is by Helen Edgar of Autistic Realms. “Intentionally liberating oneself from the culturally ingrained and enforced performance of neuronormativity can be thought of as neuroqueering” Walker, 2021 neuronormativity = a set of norms, standards, expectations and ideals that centre a particular way of functioning as the ‘right way’ to be neuroqueer = subvert, defy, disrupt,…
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Call for Submissions: Neuroqueer Learning Spaces
Open Invite: Neuroqueer Learning Spaces We’re requesting community writing and art about neuroqueering education, play, and learning spaces. Ryan of Stimpunks and Helen of Autistic Realms are collaborating on a project. Any community work will be shared on the Stimpunks website and some work may be included in our chapter submission for Nick Walker’s new…
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Creating Cavendish Space on a Budget
Design for nervous systems, not aesthetics. What Is Cavendish Space? Cavendish Space: psychologically and sensory safe spaces suited to zone work, flow states, intermittent collaboration, and collaborative niche construction. Cavendish Space – Stimpunks Foundation Cavendish Space is a regulation-centered learning environment built around three spatial archetypes: Our advocacy for Cavendish Space and caves, campfires, and…
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The Four Stages of Loving Mistakes
I like “The Four Stages of Loving Mistakes” from our friends at Floop: Those align with my experience of iterative engineering cultures, where blameless post-mortems are practiced. The four stages are compatible with learner safety. Try using them in your learning space. Learner safety and iterative cultures go great together. Further reading:
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Agile and Scrum in Education
Scrum is an iterative and incremental agile software development framework for managing product development. Scrum (software development) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Agile software development describes a set of principles for software development under which requirements and solutions evolve through the collaborative effort of self-organizing cross-functional teams. Agile software development – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia…
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A Neurobiological Basis for Progressive Education
As the host mentions in this excellent conversation, Mary Helen Immordino-Yang’s work essentially provides the neurobiological basis for progressive education. Excerpted below are selected quotes from Mary Helen Immordino-Yang’s work. In short, learning is dynamic, social, and context dependent because emotions are, and emotions form a critical piece of how, what, when, and why people…
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Scientism and Epistemic Injustice: On the Problems with “Science of Reading”
“Science of Reading” particularly and #ResearchEd more generally, remind many of us in neurodiversity and disability communities of this from Alfie Kohn. The underpinnings of that ideology include: a focus only on observable behaviors that can be quantified, a reduction of wholes to parts, the assumption that everything people do can be explained as a…
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Space Holders and Learner Safety
A space holder is someone who can create and hold a safe space for a person so they can be themselves around them, knowing they will not be judged, they will be understood, valued and have an authentic meaningful connection. As adults, we need to try and be embodied, calm and grounded to support our…
