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A Humanities Approach to Disability Discourse for Inclusive Education and SRV

  • Journal of Special Education: Theory and Practice
  • Abbr : JSPED
  • 2007, 8(1), pp.363-379
  • Publisher : Research Institute of the Korea Special Education
  • Research Area : Social Science > Education

Sunoak Chun 1 Kwak Seung Chul 2

1중부대학교
2공주대학교

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ABSTRACT

The emergence from the medical model can be tracked to the early history of disability discourse. Nowadays disability is defined as a condition imposed on individuals by society. The contemporary leading thinkers on disability recognize the significance of abandoning the old view of people with disabilities as abnormal or inferior. Special educational needs also belong to the unalienable human right. That is essential to facilitate and realize the inclusive education in general school, the normalization in education. The principle of Scandinavian Normalization begets the theory of Social Role Valorization in the United States, which focuses on the importance of social value and public imagery of disability. Recently based on the SRV, there begin to appear various studies of disability in the perspective of Humanities, especially on the correlation between the public discourse of disability and cultural text, such as literary text and media. The postmodern interpretation of cultural text transforms the consciousness of people to positively conceptualize disability in terms of democratic human right, through complex feedback system of the knowledge-based information society. In this re-interpretation of The Caretaker by Harold Pinter, the audience become to recognize the reversal of colonial discourse represented by Davies, who is the archetype of Everyman.

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