Training and Professional Development (BILD Seminar Papers, #5)
The Staff of Oedipus (Corporealities) (Corporealities: Discourses of Disability)
by Martha L Rose
Ancient Greek images of disability permeate the Western consciousness: Homer, Teiresias, and Oedipus immediately come to mind. But The Staff of Oedipus looks at disability in the ancient world through the lens of disability studies, and reveals that our interpretations of disability in the ancient world are often skewed. These false assumptions in turn lend weight to modern-day discriminatory attitudes toward disability. Martha L. Rose considers a range of disabilities and the narratives surroun...
Studies in Everyday Medical Life (Medicine in Society S.)
Directory of College Facilities and Services for the Disabled
Enabling Disabled Parents
by June Maelzer, Michele C. Moore, and Sarah Beazley
How important are family networks and personal empowerment for disabled mothers and fathers? How do sexual politics, lone parenting, poverty and other social debates impact upon them? Do disabled parents and their children need professional support? This work explores the views and experiences of disabled people and provides ideas for enabling disabled parents.
Disability & Justice: The Capabilities Approach in Practice examines the capabilities approach and how, as a matter of justice, the experience of disability is accounted for. It suggests that the capabilities approach is first, unable to properly diagnose both those who are in need as well as the extent to which assistance is required. Furthermore, it is suggested that counterfactually, if this approach to justice were capable of assessing need, that it would fail to be as stigma-sensitive as ot...
UPIAS - The Union of Physically Impaired Against Segregation (1972-1990)
by Tony Baldwinson
The book takes as its premise the argument that diverse learner groups are a fact of demographic change that should be considered foundational in the preparation of teachers rather than be problematized as a challenge. It promotes the idea of teacher education for inclusive education based on a consideration of what it means to educate all children together. Divided into four parts, the book considers key issues for teacher education, teacher agency, teacher education for diversity, and a resear...
Deaf Arts Audit (Research Reports, #10)