Join the Disability Studies Initiative for this exciting talk! Rachel Lambert (Assistant Professor in Special Education & Mathematics Education, Gevirtz Graduate School of Education, UC Santa Barbara) will offer a workshop on Universal Design for Learning. She will shed light on its development, including roots in Universal Design, and will describe the radical possibilities in UDL as well as critiques. She will also present her own work, which seeks to integrate design thinking as a process for educators to use UDL to (re)design curriculum, spaces, and systems.
Lambert's scholarly work investigates the intersections between Disability Studies in Education and mathematics education. She has conducted longitudinal studies of how Latinx students with learning disabilities construct identities as mathematics learners, and how mathematical pedagogy shapes how teachers perceive students as disabled.
Please email disabilitystudies@english.ucsb.edu for more information. The Zoom link for this meeting can be found below.