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The Multicultural Educational Alternative to Designing Social Studies Curriculum for the School for the Deaf

  • Journal of Special Education: Theory and Practice
  • Abbr : JSPED
  • 2010, 11(4), pp.119-141
  • Publisher : Research Institute of the Korea Special Education
  • Research Area : Social Science > Education

KANG CHANG WOOK 1

1강남대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

This study is derived from the thought the deaf community and deaf culture should be concerned as one of sub-cultural groups in our society. Moreover, the researcher of the current study believes that this concept should be carried on as one of multi-cultural education in the social studies curriculum since the subject especially deals with socially acceptable behaviors. This study was purposefully designed to suggest alternatives for their social studies curriculum in terms of dealing with the deaf culture based on a viewpoint of multi-cultural education. Currently, social studies curriculum of schools for the deaf is exactly the same as the curriculum of regular schools. Therefore, there is no credit hour to handle the specialties of deaf culture and deaf community. In order to apply deaf studies into social studies curriculum, meanings of the subject ‘social studies’ were analyzed through searching the identity of the deaf people and the deaf community. Based of the intent taking the same curriculum for deaf education, possibilities of applying deaf studies in the curriculum. Finally, this study introduced methods and samples regarding applications deaf studies into the social studies in terms of multi-cultural education.

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