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MEETING GLOBAL DEAF PEERS, VISITING IDEAL DEAF PLACES: DEAF WAYS OF EDUCATION LEADING TO EMPOWERMENT, AN EXPLORATORY CASE STUDY
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American Annals of the Deaf
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April 1, 2007
- Author:
- De Clerck, Goedele A M
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IN A FLEMISH CASE STUDY, deaf role models revealed a moment of awakening, indicated by the Flemish sign WAKE-UP. Contact with deaf cultural rhetoric made them wake up, and deconstruct and reconstruct their lives, a process represented by a circle of deaf empowerment. Flemish deaf leaders mentione
d acquiring this rhetoric during visits to deaf dream worlds (in Flemish Sign Language, WORLD DREAM): places with ideal conditions for deaf people. Such global deaf encounters (Breivik, Haualand, & Solvang, 2002) lead to the "insurrection of sub- jugated [deaf] knowledges" (Pease, 2002, p. 33). Whereas deaf educa- tion had never provided them with deaf cultural rhetoric and was depositing upon ...