Guide to Embedding Disability Studies into the Humanities
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- Lesson 10 Disability in First Year Writing/Freshman Composition
- Deafness as culture, historical narratives of disability (Helen Keller), disability life writing, disability and social protest, language
- How does the public perception/hagiography of Helen Keller match up with her own writing What is Georgina Kleege reacting to about Keller in her own essay “Blind Rage”
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Quick QuizCan you name the only two disabled actors/actresses who have won an Oscar?How many non-disabled actors/actresses have won Oscars for playing a disabled character?Name a disabled character you can recall from a television program. Do you know if the actor/actress playing the part is disabled or non-disabled?Resource MaterialsMedia representation of disabled people. Retrieved from http://www.disabilityplanet.co.uk/ on March 2, 2011. Disability: How the media can help. In Media guidelines for the portrayal of disability. International Labour Organization. Retrieved from www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---ed.../wcms_127002.pdf on March 2, 2011. Haller, B. (2010). Representing disability in an ableist world: Essays on mass media. The Advocado Press. Haller, B. (1999). Media history and disability. Clio, Winter 1999, 31 (2). Also available from http://pages.towson.edu/bhalle/dis-hist.html, retrieved March 1, 2011. Media and Disability Bibliography Project (1930 to present). Retrieved from http://www.media-disability.net/ on March 1, 2011.
MaterialsComputer with a DVD drive, LCD Projector, Screen, a whiteboard and blue, green and red erasable markers DVD, Glee Season One (Episode “Wheels”) Activity/Action ProjectFor one week, watch your favorite television programs. During that week, note whether or not people with disabilities were portrayed at all. If they were portrayed, note the following:1. What role did the person with a disability play?2. Was his or her disability the main attribute of the role or was the actor’s occupation, dilemma, or other characteristic?3. Was the character with a disability portrayed as a “super crip,” someone who overcomes or exceeds their physical limitations in an exceptional or inspiring way (a person who is blind climbs Mt. Everest, a person who has Autism is a savant in music or math, a person with prosthetic legs competes in triathlons); a person who was to be pitied; or simply a person whose other attributes were the focus of his or her role.4. How might the media shape one’s views of people with disabilities?ReflectionThese questions can be used as follow-up reflections assignments to be used on blogs, online learning discussion groups, or brief written papers to be submitted to the instructor.Why do you think that people with disabilities have been portrayed on TV and in the cinema by people without disabilities?What kinds of media representations of people with disabilities would improve your level of acceptance or comfort with peers who have disabilities?Could actors with disabilities play non-disabled characters (or characters for whom a disability is not at the center of their motivation or life) convincingly?Lesson 10Disability in First Year Writing/Freshman CompositionAnn Keefer, PhD, Institute on Disabilities, Temple UniversityFirst Year Writing Reader: Stephen Dilks, Regina Hansen and Matthew Parfit, Eds. Cultural Conversations: The Presence of the Past. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2001. (This reader includes a full chapter on disability, “Disabled Persons: How Do Individuals Form a Culture?” which might be paired with prior chapters on gender and race to position disability as an aspect of diversity within a semester-long first year writing course.)Possible Content Areas To Be Addressed: Deafness as culture, historical narratives of disability (Helen Keller), disability life writing, disability and social protest, languageRationale for the Lesson Many First Year Writing programs and curricula simultaneously train incoming lecturers/adjuncts in effective teaching while simultaneously engaging freshman students in debates surrounding modern topics and giving them the necessary tools to communicate effectively at a university level. First Year Writing handbooks are also increasingly including first-person essays on disability in their readers, either as stand-alone selections or as a unit.Goals/Aims:Students will understand that disability can be considered an identity category alongside gender, race, ethnicity and other identities Students will be able to describe particular social and institutional factors which have disempowered or empowered people with disabilities Students will learn about how language can help frame an understanding of disability as an identity
Questions to Discuss:How does the public perception/hagiography of Helen Keller match up with her own writing? What is Georgina Kleege reacting to about Keller in her own essay “Blind Rage”?Is deafness considered a disability or a linguistic minority by the people Oliver Sacks observes in “Protest at Gallaudet”? How might these same Deaf protestors interpret the cochlear implant debate shown in the documentary “Sound and Fury”?Resource Materials for Instructors:Cynthia Lewiecki-Wilson and Brenda Jo Brueggeman, Eds. Disability and the Teaching of Writing: A Critical Sourcebook. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2008. Sharon Snyder, Brenda Jo Brueggemann and Rosemarie Garland Thompson, Eds. Disability Studies: Enabling the Humanities. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2002. This anthology is packaged with an ASCII version of the text for readers who use screen reader software. Optional Materials for the Classroom: Barrett Shaw, Ed. The Ragged Edge: The Disability Experience from the First Fifteen Years of The Disability Rag. Louisville KY: The Avocado Press, 1994. Harriet McBryde Johnson. Accidents of Nature. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 2006. Grealy, Lucy. Autobiography of a Face. New York: Harper Collins, 1994. Afterword 2003, Ann Patchett Shapiro, Joseph. No Pity: People With Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement. New York: Broadway: 1994.
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