5-0780 DIS-ABILITY DIALOGUES: ENGAGING SCHOOLS, COMMUNITIES, AND FAMILIES

Saturday, November 19, 2011: 13:45-17:30

Abstract not available in preliminary program.

This session would be of particular interest to:
Students, Practicing and Applied Anthropologists

Organizers: Juliette L de Wolfe (Teachers College)

Chairs: Jennifer Margaret Van Tiem (Teachers College)

Discussants: Herve Varenne (Teachers College, Columbia University)

13:45

Language Games, Tidemarks of Disgust, and Legacies of Empathy: Implications of Disability Labeling In the Education System

Margi Nowak (University of Puget Sound)

14:00

Disability and Dilemmas: Comparing Special Education Policies In China, Finland, and the US

Sylvia Mac (Oklahoma State University)

14:15

Academic Identities of a College-Bound Latina with Learning Disabilities

Linda A Harklau (University of Georgia) and Shelly McClanahan (University of Georgia)

14:30

Disability and Education Advocacy In An Ethiopian Context

Megan E Flowers (University of Mississippi )

14:45

Race, Poverty, and Institutional Labeling of Perceived Inability

Gillian Parekh (York University) and Robert S. Brown (Toronto District School Board)

15:00

Laboring for Inclusion: Professional and Family Struggles to (Re)Locate Student Capacity In Social Contexts

Srikala Naraian (Teachers College)

15:15

Break

15:30

To Be Roma, to Be Disabled: Management of Ethnic Identity and Disability

Andria Timmer (CHRISTOPHER NEWPORT UNIVERSITY)

15:45

The Emancipation Discourses and the Figure of the ‘Bad Mother’: A Critical Review of the Narrative and Moral Biases of Some Scientific Writings In the Field of Disability

Michel Desjardins (University of Saskatchewan)

16:00

Bodies In Motion: Deafblindness, Personhood, and Activism In Central America

Elizabeth Lewis (University of Texas at Austin)

16:15

Lessons In Identity: Softening Binaries and Decentering Norms At a Fully Inclusive Early Elementary School

Suzanne R Kirschner (College of the Holy Cross ) and Jennifer Iassogna (Tufts University)

16:30

Profiting From Social Construction of (Learning) Disability

Ken Jacobson (Boston University)

16:45

Discussant

Herve Varenne (Teachers College, Columbia University)

17:00

Discussion

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