Sign Language, Sustainable Development, and Equal Opportunities: Envisioning the Future for Deaf Students

by Goedele A. M. De Clerck (Editor), Peter V. Paul (Editor)

Overview

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 well-being
·      partic­ipatory 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 Details

ISBN-13:	9781563686788
Publisher:	Gallaudet University Press
Publication date:	11/08/2016
Series:	Deaf Education , #5
Edition description:	1
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.10(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Goedele A. M. De Clerck is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow in the Social Research with Deaf People group in the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work at the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom.

Peter V. Paul is a professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning in the College of Education and Human Ecology at The Ohio State University.

Table of Contents

Foreword Helga Stevens vii

Chapter 1 Introduction: Sign Language, Sustainable Development, and Equal Opportunities Goedele A. M. De Clerck 1

Chapter 2 A Dialogue on the Multiple Facets of Sustainability Goedele A. M. De Clerck Patricia Hermann-Shores Markku Jokinen Sam Lutalo-Kiingi Donald F. Moores Annika Pabsch Peter V. Paul Alys Young 13

Chapter 3 Deaf Children and Their Families: Sustainability, Sign Language, and Equality Alys Young 32

Chapter 4 Debating Futures in Flemish Deaf Parliament: Deaf Epistemologies, Participatory Citizenship, and Sustainable Development Goedele A.M. De Clerck 49

Chapter 5 Quality Education and Sustainable Learning Trajectories for Deaf Learners Donald F. Moores 75

Chapter 6 Enabling Pedagogy and Andragogy for 21st-Century Sign Language Users and Learners Patricia Hermann-Shores 91

Chapter 7 Inclusive Education-A Sustainable Approach? Markku Jokinen 105

Chapter 8 Literacy, Literate Thought, and Deafness Peter V. Paul 118

Chapter 9 Perspectives on the Sign Language Factor in Sub-Saharan Africa: Challenges of Sustainability Sam Lutalo-Kiingi Goedele A. M. De Clerck 134

Chapter 10 Sign Language Legislation as a Tool for Sustainability Annika Pabsch 161

Chapter 11 What's It Like to be Deaf? Reflections on Signed Language, Sustainable Development, and Equal Opportunities Peter V. Paul 190

Chapter 12 A Sustainability Perspective on the Potentialities of Being Deaf: Toward Further Reflexivity in Deaf Studies and Deaf Education Goedele A. M. De Clerck 207

Contributors 227

Index 229