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The politics of activity: emergence and development of educational programs for people with disabilities between 1750 and 1860

Pieter Verstraete (Postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for the History of Education, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)

History of Education Review

ISSN: 0819-8691

Article publication date: 24 June 2009

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Abstract

During the last two decennia ‘disability’ increasingly has been considered by various academic disciplines like sociology, literature, social sciences, geography and history as a fresh and innovative analytical category with the transformative potential of race, gender, class and sexuality. At the heart of this development is a comprehensive transformation of what is understood by ‘disability’. Traditionally, ‘disability’ was considered to be nothing more than an objective and invariable part of the human body. Nowadays ‘disability’ is primarily presented as the contingent result of the complex and manifold interactions between an individual’s body and its surrounding multilayered reality. This new meaning of ‘disability’ especially has been put forward by what has come to be known as Disability Studies.

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Verstraete, P. (2009), "The politics of activity: emergence and development of educational programs for people with disabilities between 1750 and 1860", History of Education Review, Vol. 38 No. 1, pp. 78-90. https://doi.org/10.1108/08198691200900007

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