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This chapter discusses a curriculum co-production project to redesign a final year Education Studies module in special educational needs, disability and neurodiversity. The project was led by a co-creation group of disabled and neurodivergent lecturers and students. After outlining the principles of co-production, the chapter focusses on the group’s working practices: how they made decisions collaboratively and how they attempted, with mixed success, to mitigate the power imbalances that are characteristic of teacher-student collaboration. Included alongside detailed descriptions of the processes used by the group, centring on four key days of decision-making, are extracts from each author’s reflective writing. These reflections show the difficulties experienced along the way, but also reveal the value of consciously attempting to discover inclusive ways of working, and the liberating nature of collaborating with other disabled and neurodivergent people, as well as reaffirming how co-creation can contribute to building students’ personal and professional identities. |
