The work with the blind-deaf that Karl Levitin wrote about seems to be
one way to play out Vygotsky's ideas about creating social situations
of development where the blind where not functionally blind.
The work of Carol Padden and Tom Humphries (Deaf in America) also
bears on these ideas.
mike
On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 11:50 PM, ulvi icil <ulvi.icil@gmail.com
<mailto:ulvi.icil@gmail.com>> wrote:
Volume 2 was one of my main materials of reading in the first
semester of
my master program last year. I went almost through the whole volume.
It was really interesting to see how Vygotsky imagines the
solution of the
problem in terms of the social dimension for handicapped people in
complete
consistency with his theory's main features, social-cultural, I mean.
This one is really excellent: " "A blind person will remain blind
and a deaf
person deaf, but they
will cease to be handicapped because a handicapped condition is only
a social concept ... Blindness by itself does not make a child
handicapped"
Ulvi
2011/5/10 Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net <mailto:ablunden@mira.net>>
> I have been reading Volume 2 of the LSV CW. This material has
quite a
> sharp polemical edge to it. People might be interested in the
following
> passage (p. 83):
>
> "Achieving the religious miracle of mankind's eternal dream -
giving
> sight to the blind and speech to the deaf - is the task of social
> education as it emerges in the greatest era of the final
> reconstruction of mankind."
>
> and he goes on (somewhat letting the side down, by contemporary
prejudices)
>
> "Thanks to eugenic measures, thanks to an altered social
structure,
> mankind will arrive at different healthier conditions of life."
>
> and just to complete the idea (which concerns the social
character of
> the psychology of people affected by some defect):
>
> "A blind person will remain blind and a deaf person deaf, but
they
> will cease to be handicapped because a handicapped condition
is only
> a social concept ... Blindness by itself does not make a child
> handicapped ... Blindness ... is a sign of the difference between
> his behaviour and the behaviour of others."
>
> Interesting. stuff.
> Andy
>
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