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Direct linkVerstraete, Pieter – History of Education, 2005
In the second half of the eighteenth century, intellectuals, stimulated by the sensualist theories of Etienne-Bonnot de Condillac (1714?80) and John Locke (1632?1704), tried to understand how a sensorially disabled person, such as one suffering from deafness or blindness was able to reason and develop ideas, for the senses were thought to be the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Disabilities, Deafness, Visual Impairments
