Thoughts after supervisor meeting

Rationale can be written up as a draft - writing practice.

Literature review exploring different perspectives and teaching strategies/ approaches. Schools of thought.

Interdisciplinary topic and viewpoints - from other studies looking at the same subject.

Conceptual, procedural, technical (disability awareness, user needs based creation, technical skills) - Lewthwaite - pedagogical approaches to teaching accessibility. Different values create different outputs and approaches.

Discuss the theoretical and methodology of studies. What/how they collected knowledge. Did different perspectives do it differently? What methods and values were measured?

Methodology phases to explore - pedagogy as a subject Planned, enacted and experienced. (Design based research cycles?)

How will I measure it? 

Interdisciplinary collaboration - technical input/ disability community input/ teacher (pedagogical) input - learner input. What other studies do this (interdisciplinary collaboration)?

Why - because awareness of digital accessibility is not yet mainstream and it needs to be lifted out of just the technical audience it currently appears to sit in, and into interdisciplinary knowledge and awareness. Bring all voices from all aspects of stakeholders together to enable this. 

To input into curriculum from all perspectives as it crosses disciplines. Useful to weave topic into all as they interlink and add context.

What could work and where, as it sits in different curriculum areas?

Computing (Technical), equality/equity (Citizenship) and disability awareness (PSHE).

How will I collect data and facilitate communication - online and face to face with research participants?

Rationale about the world of technology moving fast, and the assumption that clever tech solves the accessibility problems in society.

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