全学自由研究ゼミナール 51459 授業の目標概要 Access is not easy. Consider what it means to build an inclusive environment for a wheelchair user. Each day, the wheelchair user must get out of bed with support from a caregiver; leave their barrier-free apartment, which an architect designed; follow a path laid out by a city planner; reach a train station, where they ask an attendant for assistance; and rely on administrators at work and school. If any of the ‘access-makers’ described above are not present, or their actions not coordinated, then the wheelchair user might not be able to leave home, receive an education, and pursue employment. And the wheelchair user is not alone: everyone, disabled or not, faces accessibility issues each day. Why do barriers to accessibility emerge? For whom are they an issue? What kinds of barriers are there? And what is our role in their construction? In this course, we will explore the difficulty of answering these questions by reading scholarship on access and sustainable development in Japan. Our investigation will reveal how ideas about accessibility are entangled with other social justice issues such as good health, clean energy, gender and racial equality, and the elimination of poverty. Collaborating with our classmates, we will analyze barriers to access from multiple disciplinary perspectives, surpass the limits of our individual training, and develop solutions to global problems. <
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