UID:
almahu_9949597153302882
Format:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
9780814724033 (ebook) :
Series Statement:
History of disability series
Content:
During the early 19th century, schools for the deaf appeared in the US for the first time. These schools were committed to the use of 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. 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. This book explores the educational battles of the 19th century from both hearing and deaf points of view.
Additional Edition:
Print version : ISBN 9780814722435
Language:
English
URL:
New York scholarship online
