Words Made Flesh : Nineteenth-Century Deaf Education and the Growth of Deaf Culture / R. A. R. Edwards.
Edwards, R. A. R., author.
2012
HV2530 .E39 2012
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Title Words Made Flesh : Nineteenth-Century Deaf Education and the Growth of Deaf Culture / R. A. R. Edwards.
Author Edwards, R. A. R., author.
ISBN 9780814724033
DOI https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814722435.001.0001
Published New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2012]
Copyright ©2012
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.18574/nyu/9780814722435.001.0001 doi
Call Number HV2530 .E39 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification 371.9120973
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 1850s, 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.
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Series The History of Disability ; ; 4
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Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc
2. Manual Education
3. Learning to Be Deaf
4. The Deaf Way
5. Horace Mann and Samuel Gridley Howe
6. Languages of Signs
7. The Fight over the Clarke School
Conclusion
Notes
Index
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