Science, Disability and Voice: A Response to Danforth.

Biklen, Douglas

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ERIC Number: EJ555493

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1997

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Science, Disability and Voice: A Response to Danforth.

Biklen, Douglas

Mental Retardation, v35 n5 p383-87 Oct 1997

Criticizes "On What Basis Hope? Modern Progress and Postmodern Possibility" (Danforth), which discusses the difficulty educators and special educators have in making arguments that do not conform to the language and conventions of science. The article cites Danforth's failure to acknowledge that people with disabilities themselves have challenged objectivist science. (CR)

Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Attitudes toward Disabilities, Disabilities, Literary Criticism, Science and Society, Scientific Attitudes, Scientific Methodology, Scientific Principles, Social Influences, Teacher Behavior, Teachers, Teaching Experience, Theory Practice Relationship

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers

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Language: English

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