Literacy and Deaf People: Cultural and Contextual Perspectives | 
 enlarge | Author: Brenda Jo Brueggemann
Publisher: Gallaudet University Press
Category: Book
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Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
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Pages: 212
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.8
ISBN: 1563682710
Dewey Decimal Number: 371.912
EAN: 9781563682711
ASIN: 1563682710
Publication Date: July 2, 2004
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This compelling collection advocates for an alternative view of deaf people’s literacy, one that emphasizes recent shifts in Deaf cultural identity rather than a student’s past educational context as determined by the dominant hearing society. Divided into two parts, the book opens with four chapters by leading scholars Tom Humphries, Claire Ramsey, Susan Burch, and volume editor Brenda Jo Brueggemann. These scholars use diverse disciplines to reveal how schools where deaf children are taught are the product of ideologies about teaching, about how deaf children learn, and about the relationship of ASL and English.
Part Two features works by Elizabeth Engen and Trygg Engen; Tane Akamatsu and Ester Cole; Lillian Buffalo Tompkins; Sherman Wilcox and BoMee Corwin; and Kathleen M. Wood. The five chapters contributed by these noteworthy researchers offer various views on multicultural and bilingual literacy instruction for deaf students. Subjects range from a study of literacy in Norway, where Norwegian Sign Language recently became the first language of instruction for deaf pupils, to the difficulties faced by deaf immigrant and refugee children who confront institutional and cultural clashes. Other topics include the experiences of deaf adults who became bilingual in ASL and English, and the interaction of the pathological versus the cultural view of deafness. The final study examines literacy among Deaf college undergraduates as a way of determining how the current social institution of literacy translates for Deaf adults and how literacy can be extended to deaf people beyond the age of 20.
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 new topics for many readers April 23, 2006
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The book is a collection of papers that offer a new perspective on the cultural identity of deaf people. The presentation takes the tone that the Deaf [sic] are a definite grouping, with their own cultural mores and afflictions.
Much of the text revolves naturally around the education of the Deaf, when they are children. With interesting "niches", like immigrant children who are deaf and whose native language is not English. Another topic is those women who are deaf, and who want to improve their social status. Here, there are overlapping handicaps, if you will, between their gender and their disability, which makes their efforts far harder.
Other sections discuss the implications of teaching students to be bilingual in American Sign Language and English.
The book may have much new material for many readers, if you aren't already in the educational field and teaching deaf students, or if you aren't deaf yourself.
 Revealing details of schools where deaf children are taught October 10, 2004
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Compiled and edited by Brenda Jo Brueggemann (Professor of English, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio) Literacy And Deaf People: Cultural And Contextual Perspectives is a compendium of articles by advocates and experts in Deaf cultural identity. Revealing details and mechanics of schools where deaf children are taught, schools that are based upon ideologies about teaching, how deaf children learn, and the connection between American Sign Language and English, as well as diverse viewpoints on multicultural and bilingual literacy instruction for deaf students, Literacy And Deaf People offers thought-provoking, expertly researched essays that sharply criticize current systems and a dominant hearing culture that typically assumes their literacy skills will be inferior to those of hearing society. A welcome and serious-minded contribution to reading shelves concerning the educational needs of deaf students, especially in higher education.
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