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What is Deafhood

Chapter 6
Handbook of Research on Transformative Online Education and Liberation: Models for Social Equality
The cultural experience of being Deaf (as opposed to audiological deafness); to be understood as akin to racial identity and in opposition to the characterization of the Deaf as “disabled.”
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Buddhist Detachment as a Conceptual Point of Entry into Teaching Sociopolitically-Located Multicultural Education Online
Christine Clark (University of Nevada, USA)
Copyright: © 2011 |Pages: 18
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60960-046-4.ch006
Abstract
Drawing on the concept of “Buddhist detachment,” this chapter focuses on how the “distance” between students, and between students and faculty, imposed by the online teaching and learning environment, though typically viewed as antithetical to progressive educational pedagogy, can actually be integral to its realization.
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