Challenging Ableism, Understanding Disability, Including Adults with Disabilities in Workplaces and Learning Spaces New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, Number 132

by Rocco, Tonette S.

• ISBN13: 9781118218662
• ISBN10: 1118218663
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-01-11
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
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Summary

Disability can affect adults across the life span-and it is the one minority group every person could join. This sourcebook aims to broaden the view of disability from a medical or economic concern to a social justice concern. It examines practical, theoretical, and research aspects of disability-including those who question disability classifications-and situates it as a political and social justice concern, technical and pragmatic concern, and personal experience. The authors present the perspectives of individuals with disabilities, service providers, parents, and teachers and offer analyses that range from the personal to the broadly political. This is the 132nd volume of the Jossey-Bass higher education quarterly report series New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education. Noted for its depth of coverage, this indispensable series explores issues of common interest to instructors, administrators, counselors, and policymakers in a broad range of adult and continuing education settings.

Table of Contents

Editor's Notes	p. 1
Shifting Lenses: A Critical Examination of Disability in Adult Education	p. 3
Getting to Know You: The Prospect of Challenging Ableism Through Adult Learning	p. 13
Conducting Research with the Disability Community: A Rights-Based Approach	p. 23
When the Black Dog Barks: An Autoethnography of Adult Learning in and on Clinical Depression	p. 35
Alterity: Learning Polyvalent Selves, Resisting Disabling Notions of the Self	p. 43
Learning and Adaptation After Diagnosis: The Role of Parent Education	p. 53
Challenges and Opportunities of Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom Veterans with Disabilities Transitioning into Learning and Workplace Environments	p. 63
Revisiting Debates on Learning Disabilities in Adult Education	p. 75
Americans with Disabilities Act as Amended: Principles and Practice	p. 85
Moving Forward: Two Paradigms and Takeaways	p. 97
Index	p. 103
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