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Sign Language, Sustainable Development, and Equal Opportunities
- Envisioning the Future for Deaf Students
Engelsk Hardback
Sign Language, Sustainable Development, and Equal Opportunities
- Envisioning the Future for Deaf Students
Engelsk Hardback

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Increased interaction between sign language communities and the mainstream societies in which they function is creating the potential for greater equality of opportunity for people who are deaf and hard of hearing. In this volume, renowned scholars and policy makers from around the world present innovative and groundbreaking perspectives on the relationships among sign language, sustainable development, and equal opportunities. The contributors to this volume offer creative and open-minded explorations of the construct of sustainability that are informed by their work with deaf individuals, deaf communities, families of deaf children, and other stakeholders. Sign Language, Sustainable Development, and Equal Opportunities describes sustainability in relation to: identity, resilience, and wellbeing partic ipatory citizenship historical perspectives on sign language use in educational contexts sign language learning and teaching human rights and inclusive education literate thought and literacy the sign language factor and the development of sign language communities in sub-Saharan Africa sign language legislation These changing communities' understanding of what is required to become sustainable in areas such as full participation and citizenship in society, economic well-being, access to quality education, and cultural and linguistic identity is also taking new forms. This work contributes to the paradigm shifts regarding deaf emancipation and deaf education taking place around the world.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
232
ISBN-13:
9781563686788
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1563686783
Udg. Dato:
8 nov 2016
Længde:
22mm
Bredde:
262mm
Højde:
183mm
Forlag:
Gallaudet University Press,U.S.
Oplagsdato:
8 nov 2016
Forfatter(e):
Kategori sammenhænge