This is interesting. Last year I was asked to run some workshops around the
subject of Dyspraxia. It is becoming a buzz word in schools and interest is
always high. There were a number of other people running workshops, all
regarding 'hidden' disability.
One of the workshops was very poorly attended and that was dealing with
deafness. The workshop leader said, I think I'll leave the word 'deaf' out
of the title next time and see what the response is.
Certainly I find I can talk on a range of special needs in education, by
putting Dyspraxia in the title. It pulls the crowds! (At the moment).
Gill.
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>
> I do wonder, though, why disability is not even in the
> sub-title?! Are they
> worried about a diminished readership, I wonder? I ask because I've just
> come back from a conference where there was a disability stream (poorly
> attended) and another stream where there was a disability paper which did
> not mention disability in the title or abstract (well attended).
> On talking
> to the author of this paper, it turned out that this was deliberate - to
> get people to listen. Has anyone else tried this strategy and what do you
> think of it?
>
> Another question. When we get situations like this in publishing,
> conferences and other 'academic' activities, where are the activists? Some
> of us have been talking about asking disability activists to picket
> 'academic' conferences that should be addressing disability but don't. Is
> this a way to begin to change 'academic' cultures and to
> challenge academic
> elitism?
>
> Best
>
>
> Mairian
>
> >
> >However, I am happy to report that, as a result of passing on
> the knowledge
> >which I gained doing disability studies, a second edition of a sociology
> >textbook on the social construction of identity includes disability as a
> >master status (it was not in the first edition). Although the
> subtitle does
> >not state disabilty in its list, it is addressed in most sections of the
> >text. And the authors have assured me that the third edition
> will include
> >disability on the cover alongside race, sex, gender, etc. The
> book was just
> >published this month. It is:
> >Rosenblum, K. & Travis, T. M. (1999). The Meaning of
> Difference: American
> >Constructions of Race, Gender, Sex and Sexual Orientation. New York:
> >McGraw-Hill.
> >
> >Thank you for raising the issue, Jerry. This is an excellent
> topic for the
> >upcoming SDS dialogue on academia and activism. I would like to
> participate
> >in a panel which addresses this topic -- one in which we can relate our
> >personal experiences about how we put theory into practice on the college
> >campus. If anyone is interested in joining me on such a panel,
> please E-mail
> >me off-list.
> >
> >Best wishes,
> >
> >Beth
> >
> >Beth Omansky Gordon
> >The George Washington University and
> >George Mason University
> >E-mail: [log in to unmask]
>
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> Mairian Corker
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> Department of Education Studies
> University of Central Lancashire
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