Learning with Learning Disability
What Learning Disability Can Teach Us About Being Human
Routledge
ISBN 978-1-03-253413-8
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Bibliografische Daten
Buch. Hardcover
2025
6 s/w-Abbildungen, 6 s/w-Fotos.
In englischer Sprache
Umfang: 122 S.
Format (B x L): 14.5 x 22.2 cm
Gewicht: 295
Verlag: Routledge
ISBN: 978-1-03-253413-8
Produktbeschreibung
After reflecting on the author’s relationship to learning disability, the book explores relationships and tensions between conceptualisations of learning disability and of the human. Through historical ontology, the book initially examines how the phenomenon of “learning disability” came into being. It then explores ways in which the concept of learning disability has, over the course of the 20th and 21st centuries, radically transformed our sense not only of education and learning, but also of who is or is not deemed entitled to full citizenship and the associated rights, and so who is or is not fully human.
Each chapter of the book exposes tensions and contradictions apparent in the ways we tend to think about personhood and learning disability, illuminating them through a series a binary oppositions: human and not fully human; menacing and vulnerable; controlled and abandoned; capable and incapable; human and posthuman.
The book concludes by drawing together these tensions and contradictions to challenge the prevailing metanarrative of disability and make the case for a more inclusive conceptualisation of what it means to be human.
It will be of interest to all scholars and students of disability studies, the history of learning disability, humanism and posthumanism, and learning disability advocacy.
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