Search results for "Deaf education"
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Foucault and deaf education in Finland
2016
The influence of Michel Foucault’s thinking in critical disability studies, and to social studies of deafness, can hardly be doubted. Foucault has offered valuable tools for the critical rethinking of deaf education and pedagogy with respect to normalization and disciplinary power, which are integrally related to the historical construction of deafness as deficiency and pathology by modern, medical, and psychological knowledge. This article explores the applicability and critical potential of the Foucauldian concepts of disciplinary power, surveillance, and normalization within the specific context of the history of deaf education in Finland. The article focuses on the modernization of the …
Una prospettiva storica e pedagogica sulle Lingue dei Segni: riflessioni psicolinguistiche
2021
Da oltre 50 anni, da quando W. Stokoe negli anni '60 individuò in USA i parametri di articolazione delle lingue dei Segni (cfr. Stokoe, 1981), si assiste ad un sempre maggiore interesse nei confronti delle lingue visivo-gestuali delle comunità di sordi, grazie anche agli sviluppi nel campo della psicolinguistica, delle neuroscienze, e delle nuove tecnologie che consentono indagini sul linguaggio e sul funzionamento cerebrale impensabili sino a qualche tempo fa. Può forse sorprendere che, in una prospettiva storica, all'interno del dibattito linguistico-filosofico si può riscontrare un analogo interesse per i sordi e le loro forme di comunicazione soltanto nella seconda metà del sec. XVIII e…
Implementing language policy for deaf students in a Texas school district
2013
Language policy implementation is a complex, multilayered process. Understanding this process can be achieved by identifying the agents, layers, and processes of language planning and policy activities, analyzing the layers independently, and examining the relations among the layers. Considering these dimensions, this article explicates how U.S. special education policy functions as de facto language policy for deaf students. Turning to implementation in local contexts, data from a larger multi-sited, qualitative case study of a Texas school district is presented to show how individuals act as policy-implementing agents and how their beliefs about language and education policy influences th…
Socio-emotional Problems Experienced by Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students in Ethiopia
2015
This study compares the socio-emotional problems experienced by deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) students with those of hearing students in Ethiopia. The research involved a sample of 103 grade 4 students attending a special school for the deaf, a special class for the deaf and a regular school. Socio-emotional problems were measured using Goodman's self-report measure, the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire for children and adolescents. Participants were selected from seven towns in Ethiopia. The results show that, compared to the hearing sample, the DHH students experienced more severe socio-emotional problems across all dimensions, regardless of whether they were in special classes o…