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Over the past two decades, activists and autism researchers have raised many constructive criticisms regarding pedagogical and research practices in the field of autism. While other fields have been focusing on greater openness and transparency to address such concerns, discussions and implementations of Open Scholarship (OSch) in autism research and in teaching about autism, have been limited. One crucial direction to promote OSch is through education and training. In this paper, we provide concrete recommendations to promote OSch practices in autism-focused education. Recommendations focus on embedding practices such as transparency and reproducibility, pre-registration and replication as well as highlighting the role of OSch in promoting scientific literacy. Moreover, we promote social justice, diversity, equity, and inclusion in higher education and professional training through the incorporation of Universal Design, inclusion of autistic- and neurodiversity-based perspectives, and research findings related to these perspectives, into courses. We believe that applying OSch principles and practices in education of students, researchers, and future practitioners will substantially improve autism research and related practices.Note: Inspired by reviewers' comments, we separated the initial manuscript (https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/xzkjh) into at least two manuscripts, at least one for research and one for education (this one). |
