Words Made Flesh: Nineteenth-Century Deaf Education and the Growth of Deaf Culture (The History of Disability)

* Read * Words Made Flesh: Nineteenth-Century Deaf Education and the Growth of Deaf Culture (The History of Disability) by R. A. R. Edwards ↠ eBook or Kindle ePUB. Words Made Flesh: Nineteenth-Century Deaf Education and the Growth of Deaf Culture (The History of Disability) In this revisionist history, Words Made Flesh explores the educational battles of the nineteenth century from both hearing and deaf points of view. These schools were committed to the use of the sign language to educate deaf students. During the early nineteenth century, schools for the deaf appeared in the United States for the first time. It also fueled the emergence of Deaf culture, as the schools became agents of cultural transformations. Just as the Deaf community began to be

Author	:	R. A. R. Edwards
Rating	:	4.97 (705 Votes)
Asin	:	1479883735
Format Type	:	paperback
Number of Pages	:	263 Pages
Publish Date	:	2017-12-05
Language	:	English

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Jessica said Very informative, but a bit wordy. This book is good for anyone wanting to know the historical context of deaf ed, but it's rather wordy and technical in parts and is not something you'll want if you're looking for a quick read.. N. Abbott said Quick delivery.. It was different from other Deaf history books, more of a research project. I would have liked it if the author had more of a biography (what was her background, etc.). its worth it. kathryn medina I used this book as my reference for my dissertation. The history of deaf culture and the development of instruction in education for the deaf.

In this revisionist history, Words Made Flesh explores the educational battles of the nineteenth century from both hearing and deaf points of view. These schools were committed to the use of the sign language to educate deaf students. During the early nineteenth century, schools for the deaf appeared in the United States for the first time. 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. 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.. 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. 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

R. Edwards is Associate Professor of History at the Rochester Institute of Technology, in Rochester, New York.. A. R

“In this gracefully written book, Edwards offers both a fascinating narrative and a provocative, revisionist thesis. Scholars and general readers interested in the Deaf community and American cultural history will find it a rewarding read.”-Douglas Baynton,University of Iowa"This book is provocative, detailed, and a welcome examination of the emergence of a signing deaf culture."-American Historical Review"R.A.R. Beyond a more nuanced account of the emergence of the American Deaf community, this monograph is ultimately a revisionist history of the ongoing confli