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Showing 1 to 20 of 326 for “"Disability studies"”.
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Institutional Counter-surveillance using a Critical Disability Studies Lens
… policy and procedure documents related to Disability at 3 U.S. institutions of higher education over a 25-year time frame. Policy and procedure documents are the foundation that govern how institutions "handle" Disability, outlining expectations and guidelines for providing services and …
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The new disability rhetoric: Chaim Perelman and the argument for justice in disability studies
… rhetoric, and justice to the burgeoning field of disability studies. Perelman's most commonly-known text, The New Rhetoric, has drawn praise for the ambition demonstrated in its extensive analysis of the techniques of argument as well as criticism for being too narrow in scope - focusing only on …
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Challenging Deficit-Based Discourse in Higher Education Through a Social Connection Model of Responsibility: A Critical Disability Studies Perspective
… engages the theoretical lenses of Critical Disability Studies, Anti-Oppressive Pedagogy and Iris Marion Young’s Social Connection Model of Responsibility to discuss disablement and inclusivity in the Higher Education sector. This challenges Paulo Freire’s suggestion that only the oppressed …
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In the wake of the social model : engaging with policy, theory and practice
… situated within the interdisciplinary field of disability studies. As such, they are formed in the wake of the social model of disability, a radical, field-forming idea that dominates the disabled people’s movement, disability policy and practice and disability studies in the UK. The works are …
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Disabling Psychology: A Crip Analysis of Deaf and Blind Psychotherapists in Practice
… seeking to understand the perceived impact of disability on the therapeutic relationship. There is an abundance of research on nondisabled therapists treating disabled clients but only a handful of studies qualitatively considering the disabled therapist’s understanding of practicing in a …
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Little Bodies, Little People: Conflating the Child and the Dwarf in The History of Sir Thomas Thumb
<p>Despite Victorian and disability studies scholars’ recent interest in Charlotte M. Yonge, little scholarship focuses on her children’s fiction or the ways it engages with disability. This thesis brings a disability studies reading to Yonge’s under-studied novel, <em>The History of Sir Thomas …
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Psychoanalysis and disability : an exploration of the utility of psychoanalytic methods and analyses in the interrogation of social responses to impairment
… approach in interrogating societal responses to disability is discussed, making use of experiential accounts of visually impaired university students gathersd via group analytic methods. The re-integration of psychoanalytic thinking and methods into disability studies is contextualised within a …
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ŠIAULIŲ UNIVERSITETO SOCIALINĖS GEROVĖS IR NEGALĖS STUDIJŲ FAKULTETO APLINKOS VERTINIMAS: STUDIJUOJANČIŲJŲ POŽIŪRIS /
… that each student who is seeking effective studies, will be enabled to this activity. In empirical part, was the most important to determine what the material environment conditions are made in Siauliai university Social welfare and disability studies faculty, also reveal student´s attitude …
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Reimagining Learning Disabilities: Embracing Difference as an Empowering Resource Amidst Psycho-Emotional Disablism
… their LD as a resource. Employing a Critical Disability Studies (CDS) and a social-relational framework, three interconnected studies were conducted. The first study analyzed the public narratives of three prominent LD advocates—Richard Branson, Henry Winkler, and Barbara Corcoran—highlighting …
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"And then you can prove them wrong": The college experiences of students with intellectual and developmental disability labels
… of students with intellectual and developmental disability labels enrolled in an inclusive postsecondary program, as told by them. Using student-generated digital photographs as visual supports around which to organize focus group conversations, I employ a participatory, phenomenological …
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A Dis-Ability Perspective on the Stigmatization of Dissent: Critical Pedagogy, Critical Criminology, and Critical Animal Studies
… education, criminology, and peace and conflict studies. Within those three disciplines, this project interweaves newly emerging fields of study together, including critical animal studies, eco-ability, disability studies, environmental justice, transformative justice, green criminology, …
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The Resistant Body In Sound: Cripping Music Creation Through Technology, Embodiment, And Disability Philosophy
… and asks little around the philosophies of disability and how that might change the way that we think about working with disabled creatives. If issues of physical access are all that are taken into consideration we risk creating projects which embed ableists assumptions and practices into …
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The Rhetoric of Disability: an Analysis of the Language of University Disability Service Centers
… university websites and the policies provided by Disability Services provide material for a rhetorical analysis addressing the marginalization of students with disabilities on college campuses. In this thesis, I discuss the degree to which university distributed texts marginalize students with …
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Reimagining Ability, Reimagining America: Teaching Disability in United States History Classes
… historical and educational literature about disability in the United States and provides a curriculum guide for teaching Human Rights Education (HRE) and disability studies (DS) at the high school level in California. This project traces the historical development of deficit attitudes toward …
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The constitutive relationship between race and disability in African American literature: a Black critical disabilities studies approach
In this project, I examine what disability scholars such as Ellen Samuels, Nirmala Erevelles, and Cynthia Wu label as the “constitutive relationship” between race and disability, meaning that race informs disability in the same way that disability informs race. The relationship between the two …
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Function Follows Form: An Exploration of Robotic Embodiment through Geometry
… to robot design is in-line with critiques from disability studies, which argues that assuming a single normative body ignores the diversity of human body-environment interactions, unfairly limiting human potential. This thesis aims to use framings from disability studies to better inform robotic …
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Same but Different: Exploring Young Children's Understandings About Disability
… as well as literature from the field of disability studies Finally, implications for research and practice are discussed.
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Multiple disabilities and language differences: a case study about inclusion in a brazilian public school
… and Cornelia de Lange Syndrome. Drawing from disability studies, we assert that disability is a societal issue rather than an individual one. Critical perspectives, such as the pedagogy of Paulo Freire and decolonial studies, guide our argument that true inclusion requires disrupting …
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When Time Shall Surrender: Disability, Crip Time, and John Clare's Language of Annihilation
… — what I call the annihilative turn — by way of disability studies and ecocriticism in his pre-asylum and asylum-era poetry. Disability studies allows Clare’s mental non-normativity to be understood as capacity rather than limitation, affording him unusually powerful insight into the tyranny of …
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