Philosophy as disability and exclusion : the development of theories on blindness, touch, and the arts in England, 1688-2010 / Simon Hayhoe (Canterbury Christ Church University).

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hayhoe, Simon, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Blind--Education--Great Britain--History.

Blind.

Arts--Study and teaching--Great Britain--History.

Arts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (189 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Charlotte, North Carolina : Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Philosophy as Disability and Exclusion examines the history of ideas on arts in the education of people who are blind in England, from 1688 to 2010. This book also examines a number of the earlier influences on the enlightenment, and the international context of this topic. The two hypotheses on which this study is based are:(1) Our understanding of blindness in English intellectual culture is less to do with homologous physical characteristics. Instead it is more to do with an ethical philosophy of human capacity.(2) The arts education of people who are blind through touch tells us much about our psychology of mythologies and the intellectual construction of human thought. Furthermore, the myth that people who are blind are incapable of visual arts and have an enhanced capacity for the musical arts is one of the most engrained modern folklores. It is part of our cultural, intellectual and philosophical conscience.In the process of investigating these hypotheses, this book argues that philosophies have linked immorality, intelligence and physical ability. These have become connected in ways that are unrelated to eyesight in order to fulfill broader cultural processes of developing social theory. In this book, the process of knowledge creation is termed passive exclusion and is analyzed through an epistemological model of examining disability and exclusion.

Contents:

Cover; Philosophy as Disability and Exclusion; Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Introduction; SECTION I: Philosophical and Cognitive Studies of Blindness, Touch, and Art; Chapter 2: The Epistemological Model of Understanding Disability and Passive Exclusion; Chapter 3: Epistemologies and Ontologies of Blindness; Chapter 4: A History of Empirical Research on Blindness, Touch, and the Arts; SECTION II: An Examination of the Development of English Institutions for the Blind

Chapter 5: The Philosophies of English Institutions for the BlindChapter 6: Creative and Imaginative Education in English Schools for the Blind; Chapter 7: Legal Inclusion in English Education; Chapter 8: The Development of Inclusion in English Museums, Galleries, and Monuments; SECTION III: Conclusion; Chapter 9: Conclusion; Glossary; References

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Print version record.

ISBN:

1-68123-235-9

OCLC:

935192196