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Words Made Flesh: Nineteenth-Century Deaf Education and the Growth of Deaf Culture (History of Disability)
R. A. R. Edwards
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Description for Words Made Flesh: Nineteenth-Century Deaf Education and the Growth of Deaf Culture (History of Disability)
Paperback. During the early nineteenth century, schools for the deaf appeared in the US for the first time. This book places the growth of the Deaf community at the heart of the story of deaf education and explains how the unexpected emergence of Deafness provoked the pedagogical battles that dominated the field of deaf education in the nineteenth century. Series: Words Made Flesh. Num Pages: 263 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JH; HBJK; JFFG; JNS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 158 x 17. Weight in Grams: 412.
During the early nineteenth century, schools for the deaf appeared in the United States for the first time. These schools were committed to the use of the sign language to educate deaf students. Manual education made the growth of the deaf community possible, for it gathered deaf people together in sizable numbers for the first time in American history. It also fueled the emergence of Deaf culture, as the schools became agents of cultural transformations.
Just as the Deaf community began to be recognized as a minority culture, in the 1850s, a powerful movement arose to undo it, namely ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
NYU Press
Condition
New
Series
Words Made Flesh
Number of Pages
263
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781479883738
SKU
V9781479883738
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About R. A. R. Edwards
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Reviews for Words Made Flesh: Nineteenth-Century Deaf Education and the Growth of Deaf Culture (History of Disability)
[A] useful addition to the still-developing history of the nation's evolving deaf community.
The Journal of American History
R.A.R. Edwards' Words Made Flesh: Nineteenth-Century Deaf Education and the Growth of Deaf Culture is a brilliant study of the emergence of a deaf community in nineteenth-century America . . . . Beyond a more nuanced account of the emergence ... Read more
The Journal of American History
R.A.R. Edwards' Words Made Flesh: Nineteenth-Century Deaf Education and the Growth of Deaf Culture is a brilliant study of the emergence of a deaf community in nineteenth-century America . . . . Beyond a more nuanced account of the emergence ... Read more