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

From: Hypatia
Volume 17, Number 3, Summer 2002
pp. 143-172 | 10.1353/hyp.2002.0070

Abstract

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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