Disability in Physics: Learning from Binary Mistakes
Disability in Physics: Learning from Binary Mistakes
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物理学中的残疾：从二元错误中学习
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2020
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Jennifer Blue
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A. Traxler;Jennifer Blue
如果你是白人，男性，顺性别，异性恋，身体健全，你可以相对轻松地说一些简单的话，比如“我是一个物理学家”。然而，这些描述词越不同，故事在别人、你自己或两者的脑海中就变得越复杂。如果一个黑人女性而不是一个白人男性这么说，那么像“我是一个物理学家”这样的简单说法就更有可能受到学生或同事的质疑。不符合身份的预期形象的人会受到质疑、推搡，并继续在图像和场的表示中隐形。隐形的其中一个方面就是残疾。残疾学生在进入STEM领域时面临着额外的障碍，而这些障碍是物理学已经引以为豪的(“你必须是如此聪明才能进入”)。其中一些障碍是制度性的，比如在实验室里，物理上只有很小范围的机构才能进入。一些障碍是社会或情感上的，因为学生们必须在两个选择之间做出选择：是请求住宿并脱颖而出，还是保持沉默并继续处于劣势。直到最近，残疾几乎一直没有出现在物理教育研究文献中。我们在本章的目标是介绍与物理教育相关的残疾研究框架，包括将残疾与其他身份方面(如性别或种族和民族)相结合的批判性观点。
If you are White, male, cisgender, straight, and able-bodied, you can say something as simple as “I am a physicist” with relative ease. The more those descriptors are different, though, the more complex the story becomes in the minds of others, yourself, or both. A simple claim such as “I am a physicist” is more likely to be questioned by students or colleagues if a Black woman says it instead of a White man. The person who doesn’t fit the expected image of the identity is questioned, pushed against, and continues to be invisible in images and representations of the field. One of these dimensions of invisibility is disability. Students with disabilities face extra barriers coming into STEM fields, on top of those that physics already takes pride in (“you must be this brilliant to enter”). Some of these barriers are institutional, as in labs that have been physically constructed to be accessible only to a narrow range of bodies. Some of the barriers are social or emotional, as students must navigate choices about whether to request accommodations and stand out, or to stay silent and continue at a disadvantage. Until recently, disability has been virtually absent from the physics education research literature. Our goal in this chapter is to introduce frameworks from disability studies that are relevant to physics education, including critical perspectives to integrate disability with other identity facets such as gender or race and ethnicity.