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Change and Promise
Barbara Gerner de Garcia (Ed.)
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Description for Change and Promise
hardcover. Editor(s): de Garcia, Barbara Gerner; Karnopp, Lodenier Becker. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KL; JNFR; JNSC1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 23. Weight in Grams: 748.
Within the past few decades, there has been great progress in deaf education in Latin America and growth in the empowerment of their Deaf communities. However, there is little awareness outside that region of these successes. For the first time, this book provides access, in English, to scholarly research in these areas. Written by Latin American Deaf and hearing contributors, Change and Promise provides a counter argument to external, deficit views of the Latin American Deaf community by sharing research and accounts of success in establishing and expanding bilingual deaf education, Deaf activism, Deaf culture, and wider access for deaf ... Read more
Within the past few decades, there has been great progress in deaf education in Latin America and growth in the empowerment of their Deaf communities. However, there is little awareness outside that region of these successes. For the first time, this book provides access, in English, to scholarly research in these areas. Written by Latin American Deaf and hearing contributors, Change and Promise provides a counter argument to external, deficit views of the Latin American Deaf community by sharing research and accounts of success in establishing and expanding bilingual deaf education, Deaf activism, Deaf culture, and wider access for deaf ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Gallaudet University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Washington, DC, United States
ISBN
9781563686740
SKU
V9781563686740
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About Barbara Gerner de Garcia (Ed.)
Barbara Gerner de Garcia is a professor in the Department of Education at Gallaudet University.Lodenir Becker Karnopp is a professor in the Department of Specialized Studies at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
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