Reflections of disability in Israeli school readers, 1953-67
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12540944 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Renana Kristal (The Ben-Gurion Institute for the Study of Israel and Zionism, Beersheba, Israel, corresponding author), Yair Seltenreich (Department of Education and the Department of Multidisciplinary Studies, Tel Hai College, Qiryat Shemona, Israel, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 741-757 |
| Publication date | 2023-06-19 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Israel Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1353-7121 • E-ISSN: 1743-9086 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13537121.2023.2223887 |
| OpenAlex | W4381191911 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 4 |
Disabilities were hardly and indirectly represented in Israeli school readers in 1953–67. This article proposes an integrative reconsideration of this attitude. Indeed, while disabled persons are represented as sensitive, their encounters remain sterile with no mention of either physical or emotional contact, without crossborders discussions. Normative persons address their disabled counterparts as seemingly helpless, neither willing nor able to help themselves. School readers offer a compassionate but a cold and distant glance. The whole period lacks empathy, and the disabled represent a specific aspect of that attitude. Israeli normative society emerges from school readers as elitist, ready to accept only those who conform to its high standards. For that reason, the readers abound with immigrant narratives, potentially able to integrate, but not with the disabled, of which readers seemingly despair. Even those who became disabled during military service are absent from the readers, for which they are of no educational use
Ableism · Disabled people · Empathy · Immigration · Linguistics · Narrative · Normative · Political science · Sociology · Applied Psychology · Disability Rights and Representation · Gender Studies · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Citations per year | 1 |
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| Citation velocity | current |
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