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Neurodiversity And Personhood, William Simkulet
Neurodiversity And Personhood, William Simkulet
William Simkulet
Increasingly, voices in the growing neurodiversity movement are alleging that individuals who are neurologically divergent, such as those with conditions related to bipolar disorder, autism, schizophrenia, and depression, must struggle for their civil rights. This movement therefore raises questions of interest to scholars in the humanities and social sciences, as well as to concerned members of the general public. These questions have to do with such matters as the accessibility of knowledge about mental health; autonomy and community within the realm of the mentally ill; and accommodation in civil society and its institutions. The contributors to Ethics and Neurodiversity explore …
What Is Education? Re-Reading Metaphysics In Search Of Foundations, Angus Brook
What Is Education? Re-Reading Metaphysics In Search Of Foundations, Angus Brook
Angus Brook
There is a sense in which contemporary approaches to education and to training teachers for a career in educating have for the most part forgotten the philosophical question of the meaning of education; namely, the question of why it is that humans by nature require education. It will be the aim of this article to go back to and re-interpret the metaphysical foundations of the question of what education means through an analysis of the ontological principle first expressed by Aristotle: that ‘being is always the being on an entity’. Through this return to and re-reading of the metaphysical foundations …
That’S The Policy; That’S The Law: Alternatives To Suspension From School For Students With A Developmental Handicap (The Report Of The School Exclusion Working Group), Barry Hoffmaster
C. Barry Hoffmaster
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