ISBN: 9783030569419 - dis/ability in the americas: the intersections of education, power, and identity (education in latin america and the caribbean) (4 Ergebnisse)

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Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 257 pages. 8.27x5.83x0.75 inches. In Stock.

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Zustand: Hervorragend. Zustand: Hervorragend | Seiten: 260 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | This edited volume highlights the rich and complex educational debates around Critical Disability Studies in Education (DSE), critical mental health, and crip theories. Chapter authors use the term Dis/ability to criticize aspects of education research and international development that do not center the experiences of dis/abled students and people with dis/abilities. Through case studies from around the Americas, chapters highlight how top-down approaches to disabilities further oppress rather than emancipate. The volume prioritizes the spaces of resistance where local initiatives speak back to the demands imposed by an ever-globalizing world shaped by colonialism and imperialism, undergird by intersectional ableism. Voices of disabled students and people with dis/abilities counter-narrate the personal, interpersonal, structural, and political ways in which biomedical and psychological models of disability have impacted their well-being throughout education and society in the Americas. Through a critical sentipensante approach that centers the ¿epistemologies of the south,¿ this volume challenges global mental health and dis/ability hegemony in the Americas.…