In a message dated 3/25/2003 9:13:00 AM Eastern Standard Time,
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Hi
Why stick to one text?
You can do selections from several.
Others that are good are Simi Linton's CLAIMING DISABILITY and Snyder,
Bruggemann, and Garland Thomson's DISABILITY STUDIES: ENABLING THE
HUMANITIES. Also, Fleishner & Zames' DISABILITY RIGHTS MOVEMENT is good.
Cheers
David
> Hi, everyone!
>
> For the last three years, I've been teaching a 14-week, MA-level course
> in disability studies to students in a rehab. counseling program in the US.
> When my students graduate, they will be vocational rehab counselors,
> school guidance counselors, and substance abuse counselors. Because my
> background is eclectic (developmental psych, sociology, health psych and
> teacher ed.), my course covers:
>
> history, ADA, analysis of autobiographies of PWDs, stigma/sick
> role/dr-patient relationships/normalcy/passing/marginality, stress&coping,
> identity formation, kids &families &schools, disability and the
> environment, models of rehab, and a few other topics. I should also
> mention that because of my own impairments, I use a very broad definition
> of disability.
>
> I've recently been told that I will have to switch my course from a
> series of selected articles to a TEXTBOOK. The book currently under
> consideration is _Disability, Society, and the Individual_, by Julie Smart.
> There are parts that I like, but there are also parts which I find
> problematical. Does anyone have experience with this book? Am I finding
> it problematical because I like my course the way it is, or is it
> problematical? Lastly, does anyone have other suggestions for a textbook
> (I don't know if my students could handle Albrecht's _Handbook of
> Disability Studies_)?
>
> Thanks! Nina Slota
>
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