Words made flesh : nineteenth-century deaf education and the growth of deaf culture / R.A.R. Edwards.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Edwards, R. A. R.

Series:

History of disability series.

History of disability

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Deaf people--Education--United States--History--19th century.

Deaf people.

Deaf culture--United States--History--19th century.

Deaf culture.

Deaf people--United States--Social conditions--19th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (264 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, c2012.

New York, NY : New York University Press, [2012]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

During the early nineteenth century, schools for the deaf appeared in the United States for the first time. These schools were committed to the use of the sign language to educate deaf students. Manual education made the growth of the deaf community possible, for it gathered deaf people together in sizable numbers for the first time in American history. It also fueled the emergence of Deaf culture, as the schools became agents of cultural transformations. Just as the Deaf community began to be recognized as a minority culture, in the 1850's, a powerful movement arose to undo it, namely oral education. Advocates of oral education, deeply influenced by the writings of public school pioneer Horace Mann, argued that deaf students should stop signing and should start speaking in the hope that the Deaf community would be abandoned, and its language and culture would vanish. In this revisionist history, Words Made Flesh explores the educational battles of the nineteenth century from both hearing and deaf points of view. It places the growth of the Deaf community at the heart of the story of deaf education and explains how the unexpected emergence of Deafness provoked the pedagogical battles that dominated the field of deaf education in the nineteenth century, and still reverberate today.

Contents:

Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc: a Yale man and a deaf man open a school and create a world

Manual education: an American beginning

Learning to be deaf: lessons from the residential school

The deaf way: living a deaf life

Horace Mann and Samuel Gridley Howe: the first American oralists

Languages of signs: methodical versus natural.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0

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ISBN:

9780814724026

0814724027

9780814724033

0814724035

OCLC:

793166638