Education and Rehabilitation for Empowerment (Hc)

ISBN-13: 9781593110079 Publisher: Information Age Publishing, Inc. Publication date: 11/04/2005 Series: Critical Concerns on Blindness Series Pages: 188 Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.50(d) In this book we are interested in patterns of education, rehabilitation service, socialization, and ideas about blindness that in large part produce the above-mentioned distinct patterns. We will examine the economic interests of professional groups and the patterns of domination and subordination, which are present in most rehabilitation relationships. Our central tenet is that the behavior of blind people is not a product of the physical condition of blindness or the amount of residual vision a blind person has. Rather, the behavior of blind people in our society is governed by socialization. Blindness is a social problem arising from erroneous, socially constructed negative beliefs about the capacities of blind people involuntarily assimilated from the broader society by the blind. Pe