Foucault and deaf education in Finland
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12965814 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lauri Siisiäinen (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 51-64 |
| Publication date | 2016-03-29 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Nordic Journal of Social Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1892-2783 • E-ISSN: 1892-2783 |
| Publisher | Scandinavian University Press (PUBLISHER • NO) |
| DOI | 10.7577/njsr.2095 |
| OpenAlex | W2317037852 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 15 |
The influence of Michel Foucault’s thinking in critical disability studies, and to social studies of deafness, can hardly be doubted. Foucault has offered valuable tools for the critical rethinking of deaf education and pedagogy with respect to normalization and disciplinary power, which are integrally related to the historical construction of deafness as deficiency and pathology by modern, medical, and psychological knowledge. This article explores the applicability and critical potential of the Foucauldian concepts of disciplinary power, surveillance, and normalization within the specific context of the history of deaf education in Finland. The article focuses on the modernization of the education of deaf children that began during the latter half of the nineteenth century in Finland, with the influence of oralism – a pedagogical discourse and deaf-education methods of German origin. Deafness was characterized as a pathology or abnormality of the most severe kind. When taken at the general level, Foucault’s well-known concepts are easily applicable to the analysis of deaf education, also in the Finnish context. However, it is argued that things become much more complex if we first examine more closely the roles played by the eye and the ear, by optic and aural experience, in these Foucauldian notions, and if we then relate this enquiry to our analysis of oralist pedagogy and deaf education
Context (archaeology · Critical theory · Discipline · Epistemology · German · Institutionalisation · Linguistics · Michel foucault · Modernization theory · Normalization (sociology · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Psychiatry · Social science · Sociology · Disability Rights and Representation · Hearing Impairment and Communication · History · Law · Psychology
Discipline and Punish
The Society of the Spectacle
Foucault and the Government of Disability
Foucault and the Government of Disability
Audism
Damned for their Difference
Il faut defendre la société
Discipline and Punish
The Enlightenment and the Evolution of a Language of Signs in France and England
The Idea of Gesture as a Universal Language in the XVIIth and XVIIIth Centuries
L'obvie et l'obtus
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |