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Quick questions or quandaries?

Contrasting perspectives: etic, emic, and cultural differences

January 22,

2015

Today’s Readings: Sleeter (1986), Rao (2006), and Molloy & Vasil (2002)

Social Construction of Disability

This perspective holds that there is not a one-to-one correspondence between an individual’s condition and the extent to which, if at all, he/she is considered to have or considers him-herself to have a disability. Rather, a disability is formed on the basis of a complex interplay of a variety of internal and external factors.

Do they have a disability?

Aimee Mullins TED Talk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTwXeZ4GkzI

Social Construction of Disability

Condition:• Down syndrome

• Spinal cord injury

• Dyslexia

Disability:• Intellectual

disability, language or social limitations

• Mobility limitations

• Learning disability, academic dysfunction, work performance limitations

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Social Construction of Disability

“The National Federation of the Blind of Connecticut believes blindness is merely an inconvenience and, with proper skills and training, a blind individual can obtain success in his or her personal and professional life.”

http://www.nfbct.org/html/learn.htm

Social Construction of Disability

Condition Disability

• Training

• Adaptive devices

• Compensatory strategies

• Lack of above• Attitudes• Assumptions• Cultural

beliefs

Social Construction of Disability

Condition:• Bilingual• Minority• Low SES

Disability:• LD• BD• Comm Dis• Not Gifted

• Ill-prepared or poor teachers

• Inconsistent or no access to high-quality ALS

• Negative assumptions about: child’s ability, home, and family resources

Quick Write:

What perspectives presented in the articles were disturbing for you or raised issues that you aren’t yet ready to resolve? What ideas were new or thought provoking for you?

“The National Federation of the Blind of Connecticut believes blindness is merely an inconvenience and, with proper skills and training, a blind individual can obtain success in his or her personal and professional life.”

http://www.nfbct.org/html/learn.htm

Small Group Discussion Questions

• Does everyone have a culture?• Can you belong to more than one

culture?• How does culture differ from ethnicity?• From community?• Society?

More Questions (Whole Group)

• Is disability a culture? When yes, when no? Why? Why not?

• How do the words that we use to describe the group in power and those that are not reveal hidden assumptions?

Follow up small group activity:

• What were the most important ideas you took away from the readings as a whole and from the previous interactive presentation.

Main points:

1. There is no one right way of thinking about disability.

2. Definitions of disability (who is disabled, what particular behaviors indicate the presence of a disability, what skill limitations constitute a disability) are dependent on the values and beliefs of a particular group at a particular place and time.

Main points, cont.

3. Even if there is agreement as to whether an individual has a limitation of a particular kind, there may not be agreement across societies as to whether that limitation constitutes a disability or not.

4. Our assumptions about the “obviousness” of a particular kind of “disability” are a product of our upbringing, not necessarily a “fact.”

Looking ahead…

Topic: Theoretical frameworks -- overview

Read: Rosenblum & Travis (2006) and Jones (1996)

Note: These are VERY heavy duty readings – you will need to start on them no later than by the weekend.

Please take a minute for the minute paper.

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