Care Work Through Course Design: Shifting the Labor of Resilience

ABSTRACT

Drawing on the disability justice paradigm of care work (Piepzna-Samarasinha), this article moves to shift the labor of resilience from students to our course design, noting how models of student resilience are often tied to ableist expectations of performance and coherence. The authors share their ongoing experiments in creating disability-centric, care-centered course designs, which are meant to offer students more flexibility while respecting the required labor asked of instructors.