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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “patty douglas”
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  • Unmothering Autism

    Ethical Disruptions and Affirming Care

    by Patty Douglas ...
    Series series Disability Culture and Politics
    As global rates of autism diagnosis rise, dominant cultural representations continue to define autism as a tragic neurological disorder. And mothers – as primary caregivers and advocates – are centrally implicated in the impulse to find both cause and cure. How should we care about autism and autistic people?Unmothering Autism emerged from Patty Douglas’s desire to understand a contradiction: she ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Disability in a Turbulent Era

    Edited by Katherine Runswick-Cole, Patty Douglas, Harriet Cameron ...
    Series series In a Turbulent Era series
    This book highlights the generative tension arising when disability is approached from a range of critical perspectives. It explores the persistent and tightening grasp of ableism driven by growing uncertainty, instability and inequality.Contributors propose novel approaches for affirming disability, challenging ableism and advancing justice against the increasing normalisation of fascist rhetoric ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Toward More Sustainable Metaphors of Writing Program Administration

    by Lydia Wilkes, Lilian W. Mina, Patti Poblete, Douglas Hesse ...
    The field of writing program administration has long been a space rich in metaphor. From plate-twirling to fire-extinguishing, parents to dungeon masters, and much more, the work of a WPA extends to horizons unknown. Responding to the constraints of austerity, Toward More Sustainable Metaphors of Writing Program Administration offers new lenses for established WPAs and provides aspiring and early ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

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    by Robert Chapman, Sue Fletcher-Watson ...
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    Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Neurodiversity is the idea that human brains function in a variety of ways. By understanding that people take in, process, and respond to information differently, we can appreciate how these profound differences affect the ways in which we experience the world and form relationships with one another. In spite of the central simplicity of this ... Read more

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  • Coming to terms with disability

    by Bob Williams-Findlay ...
    This book brings together selected texts by a longstanding disabled political activist. The aim of the book is to enable its readers to gain insights into theoretical, political, social, and personal issues Bob has explored along with others. From how disabled people are viewed and treated, through to revealing some of the consequences of facing disablism, the book challenges our thinking. The ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Vital Questions Facing Disability Studies in Education

    Second Edition

    Edited by Scot Danforth, Susan L. Gabel ...
    Series Book 20 - Disability Studies in Education
    Edited by the leading scholars in the field, Vital Questions Facing Disability Studies in Education provides an overview and introduction to the growing field of disability studies in education, including the application of the interdisciplinary field of disability studies to inclusive education, teacher education, educational research, and educational policy development. While traditional special ... Read more

    $58.09 USD

  • Re-situating Canadian Early Childhood Education

    Edited by Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw, Larry Prochner ...
    Series Book 47 - Rethinking Childhood
    This book presents research exploring the potential for postfoundational theories to revitalize discussions in early childhood education. In the past two decades, postfoundation theories (e.g., postmodern, poststructural, feminist, postcolonial, etc.) have revolutionized the field of early childhood education, but at the same time, little has been written about the value and potential of this ... Read more

    $41.09 USD

  • Social Work Theories in Context

    Creating Frameworks for Practice

    by Karen Healy ...
    This popular and innovative core text book explores contemporary social work theories and perspectives in a systematic way, using an integrated and flexible framework to link context, theory, and practice approaches. Healy expertly provides an applied guide to social work theory across a range of organisational contexts, showing social work as a diverse activity that is profoundly shaped by ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

  • Cognitive Surplus

    How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators

    by Clay Shirky ...
    The author of the breakout hit Here Comes Everybody reveals how new technology is changing us for the better.In his bestselling Here Comes Everybody, Internet guru Clay Shirky provided readers with a much-needed primer for the digital age. Now, with Cognitive Surplus, he reveals how new digital technology is unleashing a torrent of creative production that will transform our world. For the first ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Minority Body

    A Theory of Disability

    by Elizabeth Barnes ...
    Series series Studies in Feminist Philosophy
    Elizabeth Barnes argues compellingly that disability is primarily a social phenomenon--a way of being a minority, a way of facing social oppression, but not a way of being inherently or intrinsically worse off. This is how disability is understood in the Disability Rights and Disability Pride movements; but there is a massive disconnect with the way disability is typically viewed within analytic ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood... and the Rest of Y'all Too

    Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education

    by Christopher Emdin ...
    Series series Race, Education, and Democracy
    **A New York Times Best Seller"Essential reading for all adults who work with black and brown young people...Filled with exceptional intellectual sophistication and necessary wisdom for the future of education."—Imani Perry, National Book Award Winner author of South To AmericaAn award-winning educator offers a much-needed antidote to traditional top-down pedagogy and promises to radically reframe ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Claiming Disability

    Knowledge and Identity

    by Simi Linton ...
    Series series Cultural Front
    From public transportation and education to adequate access to buildings, the social impact of disability has been felt everywhere since the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990. And a remarkable groundswell of activism and critical literature has followed in this wake.Claiming Disability is the first comprehensive examination of Disability Studies as a field of inquiry. ... Read more

    $26.59 USD