This book provides a theoretical lens through which to view Disability. Rather than taking a medical-diagnostic stance, which has been the traditional perspective, the authors explain disability as category in which membership is based on of judgments about explanations for what people do, experience and how they appear. In Part I, the authors discuss various aspects of the history and current trends, which influence how disability is defined and addressed. In Part II, Explanatory Legitimacy' (EL) theory is explained in detail and applied to an analysis of disability. In Part III, the EL theory is applied to rethinking disability now and in the future.
Disability studies in education is a provocative and innovative field of social inquiry that challenges standard ways of thinking about disability in education, practices that serve to exclude disabled people...
The aim of this four-volume collection will be to select a range of core readings covering disability studies across all of these areas.
David Mitchell and Sharon Snyder have seen this analogical treatment of disability as a “narrative prosthesis” by which a disabled character serves as a crutch to shore up normalcy somewhere else.18 The disabled character is prosthetic ...
Investigating a Culture of Disability: Final Report
The book then describes the changes that must be made in teacher preparation programs, policy, funding, and local schools to make the inclusion of students with intellectual disabilities a reality.
Disability Studies: Buch
This study draws on sociology, psychology, education, and policy and cultural studies to make the case for a novel and distinct intellectual and political project--dis/ability studies--to encourage the rethinking of the phenomena of ability ...
Everyone in any culture is subject to being labelled and disabled." Yet, despite the temporality of ability, disability is still marginalised, distorted and concealed within mainstream culture.
"Although scholars in the environmental humanities have been exploring the dichotomy between "wild" and "built" environments for several years, few have focused on the field of disability studies, a discipline that enlists the contingency ...
Rethinking Disability: A Disability Studies Approach to Inclusive Practices