SPC
ED 511: Social Construction of Disability
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February
10, 2009 (class #4)
Topic:
Sociology of Disability
Class
outline:
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Announcements and quick questions and
quandaries:
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Go to wiki to sign up for films and books.
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If you have not yet done so, you need to log
on to the wiki tonight to provide comments and suggestions to colleagues
regarding their language diary entries. Your comments should help them
reflect on the meaning of the entries and assumptions about disability
revealed through the observations.
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Film review assignment: paper to be completed
INDIVIDUALLY, but discussion (and movie night) with colleagues encouraged.
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Interactive presentation on paradigms
(Note: this presentation will continue next week when we delve deeper into
the three dominant paradigms in education). |
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Quick Write: Which one of the assumptions
underlying our special education system do you most strongly agree or disagree
with? Why or why not? |
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Interactive presentation: underlying assumptions |
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Small group
activity:
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Compare and contrast
the assumptions underlying special education (pp. 678-679) with the assumptions
of an ecological orientation towards disability (pp. 689-690). Discuss
the implications for special education of a move toward a more ecological
foundation.
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Minute Paper |
Overheads:
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Handouts:
Bogdan
& Kugelmass' underlying assumptions
Food
for thought -- paradigmatic change
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Reading
Questions:
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Authors: Bogdan
& Knoll (1995)
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The authors state that "special education,
as it was conceived and still practiced, attributes a child's failure in
school to some flaw within him or her" (p. 678). To what extent to you
agree that academic failure is due to a lack within the student? |
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What ideas do you take away from the section
about research (pp. 682-687)? |
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How does ecological theory, discussed
in this chapter, relate to the theoretical frameworks presented in last
week's reading by Jones? |
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What are some ways that you have seen
"handicapism" manifested? |
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On page 701, Bogdan and Knoll identify
10 recurring stereotypical themes in the popular media. What recent films,
television programs, or book have you seen/read that included one or more
of these themes? |
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In general, what seems to be the point
of this chapter? |
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Now that you've read this chapter:
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what seem to be some important concepts in
this reading?
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what are some new terms for you?
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what new questions do you have?
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Extra
Resources:
Website Links:
Readings from
the recommended readings:
Phillips, M. J. (1992).
"Try harder": The experience of disability and the dilemma of normalization.
In P. M. Ferguson & D. L. Ferguson & S. J. Taylor (Eds.), Interpreting
disability: A qualitative reader (pp. 213-227). New York: Teachers
College Press...
Poplin, M. S. (1988a).
Holistic/constructivist principles of the teaching/learning process: Implications
for the field of learning disabilities. Journal of Learning Disabilities,
21(7), 401-416.
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Poplin, M. S. (1988b).
The reductionistic fallacy in learning disabilities: Replicating the past
by reducing the present. Journal of Learning Disabilities, 21(7),
389-400.
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Reid, D. K. (1988).
Reflections on the pragmatics of a paradigm shift. Journal of Learning
Disabilities, 21(7), 417-420.
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Forness, S. R. (1988).
Reductionism, paradigm shifts, and learning disabilities. Journal of
Learning Disabilities, 21(7), 421-424.
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Kimball, W. H.,
& Heron, T. E. (1988). A behavioral commentary on Poplin's discussion
of reductionist fallacy and holistic/constructivist principles. Journal
of Learning Disabilities, 21(7), 425-428, 447..
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Julia Scherba de Valenzuela,
Ph.D.
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