Veidlapa Nr. M-3 (8)
Study Course Description
Disability: Perceptions, Experience and Policy
Course Code
KSK_220
Branch of Science
Media and communications
ECTS
3.00
Target Audience
Information and Communication Science
LQF
Level 7
Study Type And Form
Full-Time
Study Course Implementer
Course Supervisor
Agita Lūse
Structure Unit Manager
Ieva Puzo
Structural Unit
Faculty of Social Sciences
Contacts
Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szf@rsu.lv
About Study Course
Objective
To acquaint students with disability as a phenomenon that reveals the values, goals, attitudes and communication practices of particular societies and their groups, including perceptions of inter-generational relationships, gender relations, the norm and deviance, social justice, care, social inclusion and individual autonomy.
Preliminary Knowledge
Knowledge of qualitative social research methods.
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge
1.• Knowledge and understanding of theoretical models of disability explanation. • Knowledge of the main legislation governing the rights of people with disability internationally and in Latvia. • Knowledge and understanding of the directions of disability research in sociology, anthropology, bioethics, history and other branches.
Skills
1.• Analyse and discuss in a reasoned way historically changing disability policy guidelines, including in the light of international and national legislation. • Analyse, explain, evaluate and compare country-specific disability policies from the point of view of the self-defined needs and interests of people with disabilities, including from a personal narrative point of view. • Critically reflect on methodology to be used in social studies on people affected by disability.
Competences
1.• Critically evaluate media representation of people affected by disability and their groups. • Develop business-like and inclusive communication with associations and organisations protecting people with disabilities and their interests. • Provide an understanding and knowledge-based policy document and policy assessment, as well as put forward proposals and suggestions for tackling problems.
Assessment
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Study Course Theme Plan
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Total ECTS (Creditpoints):
3.00
Contact hours:
20 Academic Hours
Final Examination:
Exam (Written)
Bibliography
Required Reading
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Viss obligātās literatūras saraksts redzams e-studijās (tas ir apjomīgs un tiks atjaunots katru gadu)
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Garland Thomson, Rosemarie. 2018. “From Wonder to Error: A Genealogy of Freak Discourse in Modernity.” Pp. 89–98 in Classic Readings on Monster Theory. Volume One, edited by A. S. Mittman and M. Hensel. Amsterdam: ARC Humanities Press.
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Mattingly, C. 1998. Healing dramas and clinical plots. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
4.
Davis, Lennard J. 2013. The Disability Studies Reader. Routledge.
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Antze, Paul. 2010. “On the Pragmatics of Empathy in the Neurodiversity Movement.” Pp. 310–327 in Ordinary ethics, edited by M. Lambek. Fordham University Press.
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Ginsburg, Faye, and Rayna Rapp. 2013. “Entangled Ethnography: Imagining a Future for Young Adults with Learning Disabilities.” Social Science & Medicine 99:87.
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Ginsburg, Faye, and Rayna Rapp. 2020. “Disability/Anthropology: Rethinking the Parameters of the Human. An Introduction to Supplement 21.” Current Anthropology 61(S21):S4–15.
Additional Reading
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Block, P. 2007. "Doing Cultural Anthropology and Disability Studies in Rehabilitation Training and Research Contexts," in Anthropology Put to Work. Edited by L. W. Field and R. G. Fox, pp. 85-102. Oxford, New York: Berg. PDF.
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Dammeyer, J. 2010. Parents’ management of the development of their children with disabilities: Incongruence between psychological development and culture Outlines - Critical Practice Studies 1:42-55. PDF.
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Frank, G. 2000. Venus on wheels: two decades of dialogue on disability, biography, and being female in America. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press.
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Kohrman, M. 2007. "Why Am I Not Disabled? Making State Subjects, Making Statistics in Post-Mao China," in Disability in Local and Global Worlds. Edited by B. Ingstad and S. R. Whyte, pp. 212-236. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press. PDF.
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Odex, Amasco. 2016. The Holistic Model of Disability: An Alternative Approach. Kindle edition. AFODEX Publishing.
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Siebers, Tobin. 2008. Disability Theory. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press. doi:10.3998/mpub.309723.
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Wilkinson, Mary. 2009. Defying disability : the lives and legacies of nine disabled leaders. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
Other Information Sources
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Apvienoto Nāciju Organizācija. 2010. "Konvencija par personu ar invaliditāti tiesībām". Latvijas Republikas tiesību akti.
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World Health Organization. 2003. Starptautiskā funkcionēšanas, nespējas un veselības klasifikācija: SFK. Ženēva, Rīga: Pasaules Veselības Organizācija.
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Zhivitere, M., et al. 2011. Annex to the distance education course "Ability not disability in workplace". Education and Culture DG, Lifelong Learning Programme Riga: Information Systems Management Institute. LNB:Grāmatu krātuve.
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LR Invaliditātes likums. http://likumi.lv/doc.php?id=211494
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Ministru kabineta noteikumi Nr. 805. Noteikumi par prognozējamas invaliditātes, invaliditātes un darbspēju zaudējuma noteikšanas kritērijiem, termiņiem un kārtību. https://likumi.lv/ta/id/271253-noteikumi-par-prognozejamas-invaliditates-invaliditates-un-darbspeju-zaudejuma-noteiksanas-kriterijiem-terminiem-un-kartibu
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Disability Studies Quarterly. [The first journal in the field of disability studies]. http://dsq-sds.org/
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Michigan Disability Rights Coalition. Models of Disability. http://www.copower.org/leadership/models-of-disability