Hi,
I agree! However it appears that most of us feel more comfortable
educating than organizaing, questioning our administration, and
colleagues than engaging in actions which more often than not make them
resent us-
let's be honest they have the power over our promotions, etc. Your
thoughts? I wish we could have an open and honest discussion in this area
without it turning into WWIIII.
In Unity,
Phyllis
On Sun, 19 Sep 1999 [log in to unmask] wrote:
> Phyllis --
>
> Yes, we need to be actively in the faces of those who ignore disability AND
> we need to continue to educate, too. For example, the vast majority of the
> disabled students with whom I work never heard about models of disability and
> don't have enough knowledge to question the fact that they have been raised
> in the medical model. So, we need to educate. And, we need to educate the
> educators and campus activists about disability studies models as well.
>
> I don't think it's an either/or matter. We need to educate and we need to be
> activists. We have a lot of work to do.
>
> Best,
>
> Beth
>
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