The epistemological model of disability, and its role in understanding passive exclusion in Eighteenth & Nineteenth Century Protestant educational asylums in the US and Britain

Hayhoe, Simon (2016) The epistemological model of disability, and its role in understanding passive exclusion in Eighteenth & Nineteenth Century Protestant educational asylums in the US and Britain. International Journal of Christianity & Education . ISSN 2056-9971 (In Press)

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Abstract

This article examines how the process of constructing knowledge on impairment has affected the institutional construction of an ethic of disability. Its primary finding is that the process of creating knowledge ina number of historical contexts was influenced more by traditions and the biases of philosophers and educators in order to signify moral and intellectual superiority, than by a desire to improve the lives of disabled people through education. The article illustrates this epistemological process in a case study of the development of Protestant asylums in the latter years of the nineteenth century.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/journal/internati...
Additional Information:	© 2016 Sage
Library of Congress subject classification:	L Education > LA History of education
Sets:	Research centres and groups > Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science (CPNSS)
Date Deposited:	06 Jan 2016 15:06
URL:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/64844/

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