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A Moral Conversation on Disability: Risking the Personal in Educational Contexts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Linda P. Ware
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The author explores disability in K-12 schools where attitudes, beliefs, and practices shape the school culture and influence enduring perceptions about disability among school professionals, students, and their families. Drawing on recent conversations among moral philosophers who view disability as a central feature of human life that has yet to enrich understanding of ourselves and others, the author encourages the practice of reform grounded in a process that begins with a “suspicion of the self” and a willingness to risk the personal.

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Feminism and Disability II
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Hypatia , Volume 17 , Issue 3: Special Issue: Feminism and Disability, Part 2 , Summer 2002, pp. 143 - 172
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Copyright © 2002 by Hypatia, Inc.

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