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About Us
The Project
Disability Studies for Teachers is a web-based resource for teachers who want to introduce students in social studies, history, literature, and related subjects in grades 6-12 to disability studies and disability history. Resources on this site also can be adapted for use in postsecondary education. The project prepares lesson plans, essays, and teaching materials. It also draws on and contains links to other materials found on public educational, disability, and history websites.
The project is based on a disability studies perspective. Disability studies refers generally to the examination of disability as a social, cultural, and political phenomenon. In contrast to clinical, medical, or educational approaches to disability, disability studies focuses on how disability is defined and represented in society. From this perspective, disability is not a characteristic that exists in the person so defined, but a construct that finds its meaning in social and cultural context. For further information on disability studies, please see Disability Studies: Information and Resources (html or pdf).
Teachers potentially interested in using the resources on this site might want to read: ?Why Teach Disability Studies?: An Essay For Teachers.?
The Sponsor
The project is sponsored by the Center on Human Policy, a disability research and policy institute in the School of Education at Syracuse University (http://thechp.syr.edu). The Center was founded in 1971 to promote the full inclusion of people with disabilities in society.
Permissions
Lesson plans, essays, and other materials developed through the Disability Studies for Teachers project can be used and duplicated for classroom and other educational purposes without further permission. These materials are identified by a "Copyright ? Syracuse University" at the bottom of the page. Requests to publish or reproduce print or electronic versions of these materials should be made to the Center on Human Policy (thechp@syr.edu). The Center encourages the integration of disability studies and disability history into education at all levels and will generally give permission to use materials for non-commercial purposes, with appropriate acknowledgements.
Some of the lesson plans developed through this project include external links to materials on other public educational or archival websites. Links to external sites do not imply an affiliation with this project, and no endorsement of these lesson plans by the sponsors of these websites should be inferred. Requests to reproduce or distribute materials on external links should be directed to the copyright holders identified on these sites. The project encourages teachers and others using these lesson plans to visit the home pages of these sites:
- The American Social History Project (http://www.ashp.cuny.edu/)
- The Disability History Museum (http://www.disabilitymuseum.org/)
- The Image Archives on the American Eugenics Movement (http://www.eugenicsarchive.org/eugenics/)
- The Library of Congress (http://thomas.loc.gov/)
- The Philadelphia Historical Digital Image Library (http://jeffline.tju.edu/archives/phdil/phdil.html)
- The Poorhouse Story (http://www.poorhousestory.com/index.htm)
- The Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center (http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu)
Acknowledgements
Support for the preparation of the curriculum materials on this web site was provided by the Office of Special Education Programs, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, U.S. Department of Education through Grant #H325N010041 awarded to the Center on Human Policy, Syracuse University. The opinions expressed in these materials are those of the authors and no endorsement by the U.S. Department of Education should be inferred.
The following persons contributed directly or indirectly to the development of materials on this website: Douglas Biklen, Laurie Block, Robert Bogdan, Jagdish Chander, Cyndy Colavita, Pat English-Sand, Susan Gabel, Michael Heroux, Kathy Hinchman, Paula Kluth, Tracy Knight, Zach Rossetti, Michael Schwartz, Debra Simms, Steven Taylor, John Tillotson, Pamela Walker, Graham Warder, Linda Ware, Julia White, and Rachael Zubal-Ruggieri. Of course, the Center on Human Policy is solely responsible for the content of materials on this site.
Privacy Policy
The Center on Human Policy and the Disability Studies for Teachers project do not record individual information on visitors to this site. The only information collected is on the number of visits on our "counters." Any identifying individual information provided to us via the Evaluation of Lesson Plans is not shared publicly.
