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Literacy and deaf people : cultural and contextual perspectives
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- Summary
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"This collection advocates for an alternative view of deaf people's literacy, one that emphasizes recent shifts in Deaf cultural identity rather than past educational contexts as determined by the ...
"This collection advocates for an alternative view of deaf people's literacy, one that emphasizes recent shifts in Deaf cultural identity rather than past educational contexts as determined by the dominant hearing society."--BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Details
- Creator
- Brenda Brueggemann, editor
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Washington, DC : Gallaudet University Press, 2004
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (vi, 219 pages)
- data file
- ISBNs
- 9781563682339, 1563682338, 1563682710, 9781563682711
- OCLC
- ocn794700893
- OldControl:muse9781563682339.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction: Reframing Deaf People's Literacy; Part I: "Modernizing" Deaf Selves and Deaf Education: Histories and Habits; The Modern Deaf Self: Indigenous Practices and Educational Imperatives; What Does Culture Have to Do with the Education of Students Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing?; Double Jeopardy: Women, Deafness, and Deaf Education; Deaf, She Wrote: Mapping Deaf Women's Autobiography; Part II: Multicultural and Bilingual Perspectives; The Relationship between Language Experience and Language Development: A Report from Norway
- Deaf Immigrant and Refugee Children: Institutional and Cultural ClashCultural and Linguistic Voice in the Deaf Bilingual Experience; Struggling for a Voice: An Interactionist View of Language and Literacy in Deaf Education; English Literacy in the Life Stories of Deaf College Undergraduates; Contributors; Index