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Sheldon, James – Online Submission, 2013
This paper explores how the ideology of compulsory able-bodiness functions in special education. The apparatus of special education, this paper contends, applies a bureaucratic gaze to students from historically oppressed groups (e.g. students of color and working class students) and, finding them deficient, interpellates them as disabled. They…
Descriptors: Ideology, Special Education, Disabilities, Social Attitudes
Huong, Phan Thi Thu – Online Submission, 2008
Vietnamese has to face a cross-culture issue with the teaching and learning of English as Vietnamese culture is "villagers' culture" which considers relationships in village as family relations and an emphasis "on hierarchical, social order in their dealings with one another" (Ellis, 1995: 9) with a traditional teaching method…
Descriptors: Grammar Translation Method, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Social Bias