Title A rhetoric of remnants : idiots, half-wits, and other state-sponsored inventions / Zosha Stuckey

Published Albany, New York : SUNY Press, 2014 ©2014

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Description 1 online resource (178 pages) : illustrations, photographs Contents List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction: Rhetoric, Historical Recovery, and the New York State Asylum-School; Minding the Gap; Rhetoric; Rhetoric and Remnants; The Asylum-School, Its Pupils, and the Closing of the Institution; Disability Studies and Feminist Rhetorics; Review of Chapters; 2. "Confusion into Order Changed": The Rhetorics That Govern(ed) Institutionalization ; Introduction; The Noble Asylum; The School; The Prison; The Described and the Counted; The Nameless Idiot; The Visited and the Displayed; Conclusion 3. In Pursuit of the Active Life: The Roots, Rhetoric, and Recursiveness of "Special" (All) Education The Roots of "Special" Education ; All Sensations Are Touch, All Ideas Are Sensations; The Object Method, the Hand, and the Garden System; The Face, the Posture, Walking, Then Thinking; Sensations, Notions, Then Ideas; Imitation as Social Relation; Speech, Language, Listening, and Recitation; After Speech, Drawing, Writing, Then Reading; The Excited Will of the Teacher, the Dull Will of the Pupil; Moving the Will: Order, Social Decorum, and Appearances A Discourse of Rights and Participation in Worldly AffairsThe Farm and the Sewing Room; Burgeoning of the Asylum; A Pedagogy of Sensation, Functional Action, and Participation; 4. In Pursuit of the Underlife of an Archive; Introduction; Layers of Discourse; Overview of the Letters; Letters To Mrs. Thornton; Harmony and Accord; Tension and Discordance; Listening Further; Letters from Families and Pupils: In Praise of the Institution; Listening Even Further; 5. Conclusion: Idiocy-An Old, Worn-Out Story ; The Sheltered Workshop versus the World; The Price of "Education" ; Inscribing Presence Straightening Up and Straightening OutStrength in Variation; Notes; Bibliography; Index Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject Intellectual disability facilities -- United States -- History Intellectual disability facilities -- New York (State) -- History People with mental disabilities -- Education -- United States -- History Intellectual disability facilities patients -- United States -- History Intellectual disability -- United States -- History Sociology of disability -- United States POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare. Intellectual disability Intellectual disability facilities Intellectual disability facilities patients People with mental disabilities -- Education Sociology of disability New York (State) United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781438453033 1438453035 1438453019 9781438453019 9781438453026 1438453027

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