Fifty years on – and still no resolution: deaf education, ideology, policy and the cost of resistance

Fullwood, L and Levinson, M.P (2023) 'Fifty years on – and still no resolution: deaf education, ideology, policy and the cost of resistance.' Teaching and Teacher Education, 129. e104145. ISSN 0742-051X

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Abstract

This article proposes and develops a model of teacher resistance based on interviews with eleven teachers employed in a school for the deaf that operated an oral teaching policy up to 1979. It focuses on the relationship between the reified structures in deaf education and individual agency. Teachers had to negotiate tensions between how they were instructed to teach and what they felt was best for the students in terms of language, cultural identity and community membership. Costs of collusion and resistance, and the pertinence of these issues in the context of current discourse around speaking and listening are discussed.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	teacher resistance, oppositional behaviours, conformity, deaf education, oralism
Divisions:	School of Education
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tate.2023.104145
Date Deposited:	09 Jun 2023 11:27
Last Modified:	19 Jun 2023 15:51
URI / Page ID:	https://researchspace.bathspa.ac.uk/id/eprint/15350

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