Seeing beyond blindness

• Main Author: Kinash, Shelley (Author)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : IAP-Information Age Pub., [2006]
• Series: Critical concerns in blindness.
• Subjects: Blindness.; Blind > Research.; Blind > Education.; Computer-assisted instruction.; Computers and people with disabilities.; Web-based instruction.; Education > Virtual & Hybrid.; Teaching of students with physical impairments or disabilities.; Open learning, distance education.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781918115895
• DOI: 10.1108/978-1-60752-571-4
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (220 pages)

This book is intended for four intersecting groups of readers. If you are a philosopher, closet or sanctioned, then you cannot ponder the nature of being without due consideration for vision, and cannot contemplate the role of seeing in our lives without listening to the stories of those who are bli...

Table of Contents:

• Blindness is about vision
• Images of blindness
• Interpreting research
• Research exemplified - blind online learners
• The stories : seven online learners (who are blind)
• Interpretive research analysis
• Blindness research through critical theory
• Discourse analysis
• Conclusions and questions for further inquiry
• The importance of reflexivity in blindness research.