Idiots

"Four case studies were presented in an effort to document how mental retardation exists mostly in the eyes of the beholder. I served as a tutor for these school-aged children, and documented the interpretive activities among people who played major parts in their lives at the time of the study. Chief among the questions I ask is how mental retardation can be defined as having somewhat less than a mind, while patterns of relationships exist ""as if"" the mind were fully intact, potent, and abundantly human. A brief historiography of mental retardation's development as a science was presented, and its social, political, economic, and personal effects on the definers as well as the defined were explored. The conclusions pointed toward a kind of progress for people involved with mental retardation (those with it, and those without it) not marked as much by advancements in science and technology but by creating social space for people with mental retardation as fully fledged members of their human communities."

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Education

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Linneman, R. Daniel

Contributors dc:contributor

• Chadsey, Janis G.

• Education, Philosophy of

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI9921711

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/80307