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What’s love got to do with neurodiversity and HE art and design?

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As US author Octavia E Butler (1947–2006) warns , unless we build ‘different leadership’ by ‘people with more courage and vision’, we’ll ‘all go down the toilet’. As hatred becomes even more mainstreamed and normalised, minoritised body-minds and approaches will remain hardest hit. There will be storms ahead (image 9).

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Fostering Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Established 53 years ago and built on principles of social justice, AAP’s mission is to create and administer innovative academic programs for students historically underrepresented in higher education. Coming from such a background drives him. “I This is achieved through thoughtfully coordinated and proactive programs and services.

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Fun and games – nurturing students’ ‘being’

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In our changing world, with elevated awareness of issues such as climate change, sustainability, social justice and EDI, this tendency towards the personal skills should come as no surprise. Pink, DH (2006) A whole new mind: Why right-brainers will rule the future. Freire, P (1972) Cultural action for freedom Ringwood: Penguin.

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How College Transforms Students

Confessions of a Community College Dean

” Without a doubt, a college education offers many social benefits, including increased job opportunities, higher potential earnings, greater job stability and security, increased life satisfaction, and better health and longer life expectancy. College is linked to greater civic involvement and higher rates of voting.

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Anti-Racist Teachers: Disrupting Resegregation [Overrepresentation] in Special Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Replace tolerance with acceptance; (2) A social justice ideology. A detailed description of social justice appears here ; (3) Appreciate and respect diversity. The racial nexus between social disaster, housing wealth, and public policy. Social Justice Research, 28, 318-338. Collier, Z., Vélez, V.,

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