Guide to Embedding Disability Studies into the Humanities
Part 2: The Humanities Lesson 7
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- 2. Find a first person story of a particular period of American history as told by a person with a disability. Share it with students in your history class.
- How is the Disability Rights movement similar to other civil rights movements in the United States
- Social Justice and Equity in Education, Inclusive Education, Multicultural Education, Teaching Diverse Learners, Disability as Diversity
Part 2: The HumanitiesLesson 7Bringing the Voice of Disability into American HistoryDiane Nelson Bryen, Professor Emerita, Temple UniversityAmerican History TextsCurrent texts used in undergraduate American History Courses, such as The United States to 1877 (Leonard Dinnerstein & Kenneth T. Jackson. American Vistas: 1607-1877. Seventh edition) or History 122, The U.S. 1865 to 1990 (Herbert G. Gutman, et. al., Who Built America?)Content Areas To Be AddressedDarwinism and the spread of Social Darwinism; Eugenics; Disabled veterans returning from WWII; Management of waves of Immigration; Civil Rights Movements of the 1960’s and 70’s; the Disability Rights and the Independent Living Movement; African-American Studies, Women’s Studies, and Disability Studies.Rationale for the LessonThe voices of people with disabilities have frequently been missing in the study of American History. As with other marginalized groups such as women, African Americans, and Native Americans, individuals with disabilities have played a role in the building of America. Without their voices, the history of America is incomplete.Goals/AimsStudents will understand how people with disability played a part in American history. Students will describe the concept of social stigma and be able to apply it to historical events. Students will learn how people with disabilities and members of other minority groups have been silenced in the American history narrative. Students will understand disability rights as the outcome of other civil rights movements of marginalized groups in America. Questions to be Discussed1. How were people with disabilities viewed during this period of American history? 2. How did the emergence of Darwin’s theory of evolution and Social Darwinism impact on the lives of people with disabilities in American? 3. Why was the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 needed, given the breadth of the American Constitution? 4. With the immigration of people from different countries and with different languages, why was it so hard to accept American Sign Language as a legitimate language of the Deaf? Resource MaterialsNPR. Beyond Affliction: The Disability History Project – Shows. Retrieved from http://www.npr.org/programs/disability/ba_shows.dir/index_sh.html on February 6, 2011. Dayton, B. (2010). A “Silent Exile on this Earth:” The Metaphorical construction of Deafness in the Nineteenth Century. In L. J. Davis (ed). The Disability Studies Reader, 3rd Edition. New York: Routledge. Disability History Timeline. Disability Social History Project. Retrieve from http://www.disabilityhistory.org/timeline_new.html on February 5, 2011. P. Longmore & L. Umansky (eds.). (2001). The New Disability History: American Perspectives. New York: New York University Press. The Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement. Retrieved from http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/collections/drilm/ on February 6, 2011. MaterialsNone other than course texts and supplemental readings assigned by the instructor.Activity/Action Project1. Draw a timeline of a particular time period in recent American history (within the 19th and 20th centuries) and add events in disability history that came during this same period of time.2. Find a first person story of a particular period of American history as told by a person with a disability. Share it with students in your history class.ReflectionWhy do you think the voices of people with disabilities were so rarely part of the narrative of American History?How is the Disability Rights movement similar to other civil rights movements in the United States?Lesson 8:Education for Equity & InclusionDiane Nelson Bryen, PhD, Professor Emerita, Temple UniversityEducation TextsD. M. Gollnick & P.C. Chinn (2009). Multicultural education in a pluralistic society. Upper Saddle River: Pearson.CONTENT AREAS ADDRESSEDSocial Justice and Equity in Education, Inclusive Education, Multicultural Education, Teaching Diverse Learners, Disability as DiversityRationale for the LessonSegregating students with disabilities, a practice steeped in the history of American education, continues to result in education that is both separate and unequal. Furthermore, the bifurcated preparation of future teachers into those studying to be “regular” educators and those studying to be
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