Mission
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The recent HE Academy conference on Curriculum Innovation for Diversity, held in the UK in September 2006, explored practical approaches to embedding equality and diversity in curricula for the enhancement of SpLD students’ learning experience.
Some key questions emerged from the conference:
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An aligned curriculum (Biggs, 2003) appropriate for all students, is needed.. Once the good practice has been investigated, evaluated and established it will be transferable to the rest of the HE sector. There is a strong HE network arising from the dissemination of the AchieveAbility project, which can be used for consultation, formative evaluation and final dissemination and future networking. The production of staff development materials, and the design and evaluation of effective processes for using these, is an important part of the project; dissemination is a key theme.
The ethos of the work is that the HE curriculum should be:
Providing stimulating, supportive and accessible learning, based on mutual respect and trust, assisting all students in achieving their full potential, irrespective of disability
Ensuring that all students are treated fairly (the three institutions involved in this project have long traditions of promoting disability equality)
Underpinned by the social model of disability, which does not focus on an individual's medical condition or impairment, but instead identifies the impact of disability in the structural, organisational, physical and attitudinal barriers that inhibit people with disabilities from achieving equality and inclusion
Offering everyone access to the opportunities provided by higher education and creating barrier-free learning.
The ethos of the work is that the HE curriculum should be: