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Disability and the Teaching of Writing A Critical Sourcebook

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ISBN-10: 0312447256

ISBN-13: 9780312447250

Edition: N/A

Authors: Jay Dolmage, Brenda Jo Brueggemann, Cynthia Lewiecki-Wilson

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"Disability and the Teaching of Writing" brings together both ground-breaking new work and important foundational texts at the intersection of disability and composition studies. With practical suggestions for applying concepts to the classroom, this sourcebook helps instructors understand the issues involved in not only teaching students with disabilities but in teaching with and about disability as well.
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Book details

List price: $45.99
Publisher: Bedford/Saint Martin's
Publication date: 3/23/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.75" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.858
Language: English

Brenda Jo Brueggemannis Professor of English and Disability Studies at The Ohio State University where she coordinates the Disability Studies program and serves as a Faculty Leader for the American Sign Language Program. She has authored, edited, or co-edited seven books.

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Rethinking Practices and Pedagogy: Disability and the Teaching of Writing
Disability Awareness in Teacher Training
Introduction
Mapping Composition: Inviting Disability in the Front Door
Tutoring Deaf College Students in the Writing Center
Discourses of Disability and Basic Writing
Writing from Normal: Critical Thinking and Disability in the Composition Classroom
Add Disability and Stir: The New Ingredient in Composition Textbooks
Embodied Writing: Perspectives From Teachers With Disabilities
Introduction
Body Language: Disability Narratives and the Act of Writing
"The Taming of the Sun": Finding the Joke in the Cancer Narrative of a Pedagogue
Reflections on Writing and Teaching Disability Autobiography
Teaching by Ear
The Ways We Disclose: When Life-Writing Becomes Writing Your Life
Resources for Teaching Disability Concepts in the Writing Classroom
Introduction
Redesigning the Writing Classroom
From Becoming Visible: Lessons in Disability
From Learning Differences: The Perspective of LD College Students
From Constructing a Third Space: Disability Studies, the Teaching of English, and Institutional Transformation
From Enforcing Diversity and Living with Disability: Learning from My First Teaching Year
From Visible Disability in the College Classroom
Universal Design for Learning: A Brief Annotated Bibliography of Online Resources
Analyzing Language, Representation, and Narrative from a Disability Perspective
From Reassigning Meaning
From Narrative Prosthesis and the Materiality of Metaphor
From Conflicting Paradigms: The Rhetorics of Disability Memoir
From Rhetoric and Healing: Revising Narratives about Disability
Using Disability Concepts: The Norm, Gaze, and Embodied Knowledge
From The Rule of Normalcy
From Animals in Translation
From The Politics of Staring: Visual Rhetorics of Disability in Popular Photography
Gawking, Gaping, Staring
From Disabilities, Bodies, Voices
From Sex and Death and the Crippled Body: A Meditation
Entering Cultural Debates: A Politics and Poetics of Disability
From Citizenship and Disability
From Composing Bodies; or, De-Composition: Queer Theory, Disability Studies, and Alternative Corporealities
Breast Cancer: Power vs. Prosthesis
From Public Transit
From What Can Disability Studies Learn from the Culture Wars?
Poems with Disabilities and Poet of Cripples
Bibliography Of Composition and Rhetoric and Disability Studies Sources
About the Editors
Index
Index Of Activities