I received the following response to my requests for people with various
disabilities to share their experiences with students in my sociology of
disability course. I'm wondering if others have similar feelings. I'd
like to discuss this further. --Janette
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Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1999 11:38:28 +0100
From: Susanne Berg <[log in to unmask]>
To: Janette Lawler <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: SV: I need an MS advocate (fwd)
Janette,
I am sorry, but I think you're off the track here. I am the only person who
can learn from my experiences, since they are exclusively mine - like yours
are exclusively yours.
They could be useful, if I, in a broader context, for example a discussion
on a specific disabling mechanism, choose to use them as a way of
illustrating a point. However I would never subject myself to questioning or
scrutiny on a purely individual basis like this (and if I might say so, on
an unequal power-basis like this).
I don't mean to be offensive, but if you want your students to gain some
insight in what it is like to live with a disability in the present society,
I suggest you invite PWD as speakers on different subjects in your course.
Then everybody knows what is going to be discussed and the speaker can
choose to use his/her experience as an educational illustration without
feeling like an "object for investigation".
Try to keep the focus on the general not the individual, I think you'll get
much farther.
Susanne
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Från: Janette Lawler <[log in to unmask]>
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Datum: den 2 februari 1999 01:41
Ämne: I need an MS advocate (fwd)
>I didn't get much response from the advocacy list; hope someone here can
>help. Also, using several articles from Adrienne Asch and had a request
>for more biographical information. Any help would be
>appreciated.--Janette
>
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>Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 19:00:20 -0700 (MST)
>From: Janette Lawler <[log in to unmask]>
>To: Advocacy <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: I need an MS advocate (fwd)
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>I also need someone with a physical disability other than MS to correspond
>with another student who is interested in corresponding online. Thanks
>for your help.
>Janette
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>Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 17:06:47 -0700 (MST)
>From: Janette Lawler <[log in to unmask]>
>To: Advocacy <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: I need an MS advocate
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>I'm teaching a new class in the sociology of disability. One of my
>requirements is that each student have some direct interaction with a PWD.
>I am doing my best to meet each student's desires to focus on a specific
>disabling condition or impairment. I have a student who wishes to have an
>on-line exchange on a weekly basis with a female who has MS. Any
>volunteers? Your interactions will be confidential. I am simply trying
>to give students an opportunity to learn from your personal experiences,
>feelings, expressions, etc. rather than solely from reading materials,
>lectures and so on. Their impressions, thoughts, and revelations are then
>recorded in a journal and shared only as they feel comfortable. Thanks in
>advance to anyone who might be willing to advocate in this fashion.
>
>Janette
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