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Monday 13th July: A changing consciousness and times of change
Suggested preparatory readings:
De Clerck, G. & Paul, P.V. (2015). Sign language, sustainable development, and equal
opportunities. Ghent: Academia Press.
Chapter 1, De Clerck, G., Introduction: Sign language, sutainable
development, and equal opportunies, p. 5-18
Chapter 2, De Clerck, Herman-Shores, Jokinen et al. Preconference dialogue
on the multiple facets of sustainability, p. 19-42
Video: http://www.eud.eu/Ghent_University-_April_ 2014-i-812.html
(updated version available soon)
Padden, C. & Humphries, T. (1988). A Changing Consciousness, In: Deaf in America:
Voices from a Culture. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Reprinted in
American Voices: Multicultural Literacy and Critical Thinking, D. LaGuardia & H. Guth,
Eds. London, UK: Mayfield Publishing Co. 1996.)
Padden, C., & Humphries, T. (2005). Inside Deaf culture. Cambridge, MA: Harvard
University Press.
Chapter 1, Introduction: The lens of culture, p. 1-10
Chapter 7, The promise of culture, p. 144-162
Chapter 8 Cultures into the future, p. 163-180
Video: Tom Humphries: Constructs of Self and Others
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHCKGRrAQBY
Tuesday 14th July: Deaf epistemologies as an analytical tool
Suggested preparatory readings – 4 texts of choice:
Carty, B. (2011). The view from the periphery. In D. F. Moores (Ed.), Partners in
education: Issues and trends from the 21st International Congress on the Education
of the Deaf (pp. 159-174). Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press.
De Clerck, G. & Paul, P.V. (2015). Sign language, sustainable development, and equal
opportunities. Ghent: Academia Press.
Chapter 4, De Clerck, G. Debating futures in Flemish deaf parliament, p. 61-90
De Clerck, G. (2012). Contributing to an era of epistemological equity: A critique and
alternative to the practice of science. In P.V. Paul & D.F. Moores (Eds.), Deaf
epistemologies: Multiple perspectives on the acquisition of knowledge (pp.
19-44). Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press.
Jamieson, J.R., & Moores, D.F. (2011). Partners in education: The 21 st international
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congress on the education of the Deaf – Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. In D.
F. Moores (Ed.), Partners in education: Issues and trends from the 21st international
congress on the education of the deaf (pp. 20-30). Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet
University Press
McKee, M. & Hauser, P. Juggling two worlds. In: In P.V. Paul & D.F. Moores (Eds.),
Deaf epistemologies: Multiple perspectives on the acquisition of knowledge (pp. 4562). Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press)
Paul, P.V., & Moores, D.F. (2012). Toward an understanding of epistemology and
deafness. In P.V. Paul & D.F. Moores (Eds.), Deaf epistemologies: Multiple
perspectives on the acquisition of knowledge (pp. 3-15). Washington, DC:
Gallaudet University Press.
Young, A., & Temple, B. (2014). Approaches to social research: The case of Deaf
studies. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.
Chapter 2: Definitions and transgressions
Chapter 3: Epistemology, methodology, and method
Video: Flemish deaf parliament (will be available on www.signlanguageprojects.com)
Wednesday 15th July: Identity & diversity, emancipation & ‘voice’
Suggested preparatory readings
De Clerck, G. & Paul, P.V. (2015). Sign language, sustainable development, and equal
opportunities. Ghent: Academia Press.
Chapter 3, Young, A., Deaf children and their families, p. 43-60
Parasnis, I. (2012). Diversity and Deaf identity: Implications for personal
epistemologies in deaf education. In P.V. Paul & D.F. Moores (Eds), Deaf
Epistemologies: Multiple perspectives on the acquisition of knowledge (pp.
63-80). Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press.
Padden, C., & Humphries, T. (2005). Inside Deaf culture. Cambridge, MA: Harvard
University Press.
Chapter 3, The problem of voice, p. 57-77
McIlroy, G. & Storbeck, C. (2011). Development of Deaf Identity: an Ethnographic
Study. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education. 16(4), p. 494-511
Valentine, G., & Skelton, T. (2007). Re-defining norms: D/deaf young people’s transitions to independence. The Sociological Review, 55(1), 104-123.
Video: Veditz: The preservation of the sign language
http://videocat- alog.gallaudet.edu/?video=2520
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Video: I’m a human being too (will be available on www.signlanguageprojects.com)
Thursday 16th June: Deaf identity and emancipation in different contexts around
the world, transnational and global interaction
Suggested preparatory reading – 4 texts of choice
Breivik, J. (2005). Deaf identities in the making. Local lives, transnational
connections. Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet University Press.
Two chapters of choice with topics related to transnational connections
De Clerck, G. (2009). I don’t worry, because I have my education. Translated deaf
people moving toward emancipation. Medische antropologie. 21, 1, p. 131-158.
De Clerck, G. (2012). Valuing deaf indigenous knowledge in research through
partnership: The Cameroonian deaf community and the challenge of “serious”
scholarship. In P. V. Paul & D. F. Moores (Eds.). Deaf epistemologies: Multiple
perspectives on the acquisition of knowledge (pp. 19-44). Washington, DC: Gallaudet
University Press.
De Clerck, G. & Paul, P.V. (2015). Sign language, sustainable development, and equal
opportunities. Ghent: Academia Press.
Chapter 9, Lutalo-Kiingi & De Clerck, Perspectives on the Sign Language
Factor in Sub-Saharan Africa: Challenges of sustainability, p. 159-188.
Haualand, H. (2007). The two-week village: The significance of sacred occasions for
the deaf community. In: B. Ingstad & S.R. Whyte (eds), Disability in local and global
worlds. Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 33-55.
Johnson, K. Lytle, R. & Jun Hui Yang (2009). Deaf Education and the Deaf Community
in China: Past, Present, and Future. In: Moores, D.F. & Miller, M.S. (2009). Deaf
people around the world: Educational and social perspectives. Washington, DC:
Gallaudet University Press.
Monaghan, L. et al. (Eds) (2003). Many ways to be deaf. International variation in
deaf communities. Washington DC: Gallaudet University Press.
Chapter 8, LeMaster, B. School language and shifts in Irish deaf identity (p.
153-172
Chapter 16, Schmaling, C., A for Apple: The Impact of Western Education and
ASL on the Deaf Community in Kano State, Northern Nigeria
Polish, L. The emergence of the deaf community in Nicaragua: “With sign language,
you can learn so much.” Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press.
Chapter , Social Actors
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Friday 17th June: A sustainability perspective and potentialities of being deaf
Suggested preparatory readings
Blume, S. (2010). The artificial ear: Cochlear implants and the culture of deafness.
Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
Chapter 6, Contexts of uncertainty: parental decision making (p. 144-172).
De Clerck, G. & Paul, P.V. (2015). Sign language, sustainable development, and equal
opportunities. Ghent: Academia Press.
Chapter 5, Jokinen, M., Inclusive education: A sustainable approach? (p. 125139)
Chapter 11, Paul, P., What’s it like to be deaf? Reflections on signed language,
sustainable development, and equal opportunities (p. 223-240).
Chapter 12, De Clerck, G., A sustainability perspective and potentialities of
being deaf: Towards further reflexivity in deaf studies and deaf education (p.
241-)
Video: Anja Hiddinga & Jascha Blume: I sign, I live (58 min., 2012). Distribution:
Stichting Geelprodukt, Makuxi