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