| Abstrakt: |
Journalism, as other academic disciplines that require normal vision, is considered difficult for visually impaired students to pursue. However, the involvement of visually impaired people in teaching journalism at university level is even more difficult. Although the experiences of visually impaired journalists and journalism students are well-documented in academia, no article about visually impaired people as educators of journalism is written. Drawing on the real experience of the author, a visually impaired lecturer of journalism, this article presents the key takeaways from teaching journalism to Egyptian sighted students. This article has many significant practical contributions, that is, (1) Introducing the tools and strategies that academics with visual impairments use to teach journalism, (2) Identifying the major difficulties encountered by lecturers with visual impairments who teach journalism, and (3) Motivating journalism schools to hire visually impaired educators. The article indicates that positive attitudes toward visually impaired educators as well as assistive technology devices help them to celebrate their disability and be 'melted' in society as normal. The article thus sheds light on an area of research that has not been examined before. The author's insights are interpreted through the lens of critical disability studies. The article concludes with recommendations for increasing the number of journalism educators with visual impairments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
