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Disabling Pedagogy
Linda R. Komesaroff
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Description for Disabling Pedagogy
Paperback. Drawing on interviews with educators, parents, students, community leaders, and others with a stake in deaf education, the author presents a deep account of the political challenges facing this entrenched special education group and presents specific strategies for how these challenges might be addressed. Num Pages: 154 pages. BIC Classification: JNF; JNSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 227.
Drawing on interviews with educators, parents, students, community leaders, and others with a stake in deaf education, Linda Komesaroff presents a deep account of the political challenges facing this entrenched special education group and presents specific strategies for how these challenges might be addressed. Among the initiatives Komesaroff explores as part of her ethnographic study is the shift to a bilingual education model to redress the lack of access to native sign language in the classroom. In Disabling Pedagogy, she analyzes the successes of this model, as well as the complaints field in recent discrimination suits throughout Australia, to offer ... Read more
Drawing on interviews with educators, parents, students, community leaders, and others with a stake in deaf education, Linda Komesaroff presents a deep account of the political challenges facing this entrenched special education group and presents specific strategies for how these challenges might be addressed. Among the initiatives Komesaroff explores as part of her ethnographic study is the shift to a bilingual education model to redress the lack of access to native sign language in the classroom. In Disabling Pedagogy, she analyzes the successes of this model, as well as the complaints field in recent discrimination suits throughout Australia, to offer ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Gallaudet University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
154
Condition
New
Number of Pages
154
Place of Publication
Washington, DC, United States
ISBN
9781563685866
SKU
V9781563685866
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About Linda R. Komesaroff
Linda Komesaroff is a senior lecturer at Deakin University, Melbourne, and the author of Surgical Consent: Bioethics and Cochlear Implantation, also published by Gallaudet University Press.
Reviews for Disabling Pedagogy
"A thorough and scholarly guide on the subject and a top pick for discussions regarding issues of the deaf." (Midwest Book Review)"