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5-0780 DIS-ABILITY DIALOGUES: ENGAGING SCHOOLS, COMMUNITIES, AND FAMILIES
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Saturday, November 19, 2011: 13:45-17:30

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This session would be of particular interest to:
Students, Practicing and Applied Anthropologists
Organizers:  Juliette L de Wolfe (Teachers College)
Chairs:  Jennifer Margaret Van Tiem (Teachers College)
Discussants:  Herve Varenne (Teachers College, Columbia University)
13:45
Language Games, Tidemarks of Disgust, and Legacies of Empathy: Implications of Disability Labeling In the Education System
Margi Nowak (University of Puget Sound)
14:00
Disability and Dilemmas: Comparing Special Education Policies In China, Finland, and the US
Sylvia Mac (Oklahoma State University)
14:15
Academic Identities of a College-Bound Latina with Learning Disabilities
Linda A Harklau (University of Georgia) and Shelly McClanahan (University of Georgia)
14:30
Disability and Education Advocacy In An Ethiopian Context
Megan E Flowers (University of Mississippi )
14:45
Race, Poverty, and Institutional Labeling of Perceived Inability
Gillian Parekh (York University) and Robert S. Brown (Toronto District School Board)
15:00
Laboring for Inclusion: Professional and Family Struggles to (Re)Locate Student Capacity In Social Contexts
Srikala Naraian (Teachers College)
15:15
Break
15:30
To Be Roma, to Be Disabled: Management of Ethnic Identity and Disability
Andria Timmer (CHRISTOPHER NEWPORT UNIVERSITY)
15:45
The Emancipation Discourses and the Figure of the ‘Bad Mother’: A Critical Review of the Narrative and Moral Biases of Some Scientific Writings In the Field of Disability
Michel Desjardins (University of Saskatchewan)
16:00
Bodies In Motion: Deafblindness, Personhood, and Activism In Central America
Elizabeth Lewis (University of Texas at Austin)
16:15
Lessons In Identity: Softening Binaries and Decentering Norms At a Fully Inclusive Early Elementary School
Suzanne R Kirschner (College of the Holy Cross ) and Jennifer Iassogna (Tufts University)
16:30
Profiting From Social Construction of (Learning) Disability
Ken Jacobson (Boston University)
16:45
Discussant
Herve Varenne (Teachers College, Columbia University)
17:00
Discussion
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