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Mar 20, 2006 by Teacher Education |
| Overview: |
Beyond Affliction: The Disability History Project is a four hour documentary
radio series about the shared experience of people with disabilities and their
families since the beginning of the 19th century to the present. This Web site
includes excerpts from the shows as well as many of the primary source documents
-extended interviews, images, audio clips, and texts- from which the on-air
programs were developed. Video tapes of the series are available through this
site.
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| Learning Goals: |
Increase awareness on how popular cultural attitudes about disabilities came to
be, how they have changed, and what kinds of consequences they had for people
with disabilities and their families.
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| Target Student Population: |
College students in pre-service teacher training programs, students studying
issues in diversity, undergraduate students in sociology, psychology, and
history could all use this site as a reference source on how changing constructs
- or perceptions - of a particular group of indiviudals change with the changes
that occur within communities,
medicine, work, and education.
This might also be a supplementary source to demonstrate the impact media has on
one's perception of indiviudals with disabilties.
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| Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills: |
None
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| Type of Material: |
Primary source documents, extended interviews, images, audio clips, and text.
Numerous resources on disabilities are also provided; organizations for specific
disabilities, medical resources, government agencies, books, and movies.
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| Recommended Uses: |
This site would be a good resource for professors teaching introductory courses
in special education to reinforce student awareness of the struggle and
discrimination individuals with disabilities have faced historically. This would
also be an excellent site for students in courses addressing cultural diversity
and tolerance in the United States.
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| Technical Requirements: |
Real Player needed to use audio clips.
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| Strengths: |
Primary source documents, speeches, and audio clips strengthen the validity of
this site as historically accurate; the strength of this site lies in the use of
primary source materials that brings learners closer to the portraits of
disabilities in the past. The information collected in this site is
not readily available in text books, making this an excellent supplemental
resource for college students.
The site describes and shows what it was like to have a disability in the United
States since the beginning of the 19th century. The authors look at disabilites
from various persepctives; community, medical, education, charity, and
policies.
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| Concerns: |
A couple of links not working.
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Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool |
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| Strengths: |
The site has information that is highly interesting; information is organized in
short, clear bits text, video, or audio clips. Teh site is an effective tool
to facilitate learning.
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Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty |
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| Concerns: |
Sometimes there are so many links on one page that it is easy to lose track of
the major focus of that section. Some links are no longer active.
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