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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"disability history"”.
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STORIES OF ME: DISABILITY IDENTITY DEVELOPMENT IN PERSONS WITH ADHD
… The study aims to explore the narratives of disability identity from the adult reflective perspective to identify potential recommendations for teachers. This mixed-methods study collected data through two semi-structured interviews of adults with ADHD, a focus group, and survey data from …
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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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Medicalized Illiteracies: Learning Disabilities, Contentious Histories, and Writing Studies
… 1973 to 1996, I analyze the rhetoric of learning disability histories as well as the role of organic definitions of literacy at work in these histories in order to understand the scholarly reluctance of Writing Studies and Disability Studies to deal with learning disabilities. Through an archival …
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The Case of the Disappearing/Appearing Slow Learner:An Interpretive Mystery
… leaders and the interpretive lenses of disability studies, including disability history, and hermeneutics. It explored assumptions contained in the slow learner label and the resourcing and accommodation practices, and their lack, that flow from this and other educational labels. …
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Enabling the Great War: Ex-Servicemen, the Mixed Economy of Welfare and the Social Construction of Disability, 1899-1930
… World War. Dealing with the enormity of war time disability put great strain on medical and financial resources and forced the British government to reassess, and radically alter its responsibilities towards disability in Britain. The crisis of war highlighted existing inadequacies in care for the …
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Communication, Disability, and Scientific Interventions in South Asia, c. 1860-1970
… traces a social, cultural, and intellectual history of how physicians, pedagogues, and pathologists studied, medicated, and politicised the voice and communication. It identifies several key institutions, such as the Calcutta Deaf and Dumb School (f. 1893), and the All-India Institute of …
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Broken supermen: Disabled veterans and soldiers in Nazi Germany, 1939-1945
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2024-09-16 without embargo terms
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The cost of workplace injury in Mauritius, Barbados, and the Gold Coast, 1925-1943
… from precarity, the dissertation analyses the history of the WCO alongside workers’ experiences of injury and protest. The WCO addressed a specific inequality in employer-employee relationships by holding employers accountable for wages that could have been earned in the future. By …
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Inherently Undesirable: American Identity and the Role of Negative Eugenics in the Education of Visually Impaired and Blind Students in Ohio, 1870-1930
<p>To date, studies of eugenics artificially confine their focus to the movement’s application to race, socio-economic status, and the forced sterilization of the so-called feebleminded. However, the segregationist aspect of the eugenics design in the United States brought with it damaging policies …