Changing Social Attitudes Toward Disability: Perspectives from Historical, Cultural, and Educational Studies

Changing Social Attitudes Toward Disability: Perspectives from Historical, Cultural, and Educational Studies

edited by David Bolt, fl. 2009, in Routledge Advances in Disability Studies (Abingdon, England: Routledge (Publisher), 2014, originally published 2014), 191 page(s)

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Abstract / Summary
Whilst legislation may have progressed internationally and nationally for disabled people, barriers continue to exist, of which one of the most pervasive and ingrained is attitudinal. Social attitudes are often rooted in a lack of knowledge and are perpetuated through erroneous stereotypes, and ultimately these legal and policy changes are ineffectual without a corresponding attitudinal change. This unique book provides a much needed, multifaceted exploration of changing social attitudes toward disability. Adopting a tripartite approach to examining disability, the book looks at historical, cultural, and education studies, broadly conceived, in order to provide a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approach to the documentation and endorsement of changing social attitudes toward disability. Written by a selection of established and emerging scholars in the field, the book aims to break down some of the unhelpful boundaries between disciplines so that disability is recognised as an issue for all of us across all aspects of society, and to encourage readers to recognise disability in all its forms and within all its contexts. This truly multidimensional approach to changing social attitudes will be important reading for students and researchers of disability from education, cultural and disability studies, and all those interested in the questions and issues surrounding attitudes toward disability.
Field of Interest
Disability Studies
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2014 David Bolt for selection and editorial matter. Individual contributors, their contributions.
Content Type
General reference book
Duration
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Warning: Contains explicit content
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Format
Text
Original Publication Date
2014
Page Count
191
Publication Year
2014
Publisher
Routledge (Publisher)
Place Published / Released
Abingdon, England
Subject
Disability Studies, Diversity, Theory, Attitude (Psychology), Sociology, Disabilities, Disabled persons, Theoretical Perspectives, History and Theory, Teoría, Teoria, Early 21st Century United States (2001– )
Series / Program
Routledge Advances in Disability Studies
Keywords and Translated Subjects
Theoretical Perspectives, History and Theory, Teoría, Teoria

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