Challenging Ableism, Understanding Disability, Including Adults with Disabilities in Workplaces and Learning Spaces

EDITOR'S NOTES 1 Tonette S. Rocco 1. Shifting Lenses: A Critical Examination of Disability inAdult Education 3 Tonette S. Rocco, Antonio Delgado This chapter presents concepts and theories from disabilitystudies useful for a critical examination of disability in adulteducation. 2. Getting to Know You: The Prospect of Challenging AbleismThrough Adult Learning 13 Margaret A. McLean This chapter examines the role of contact and relationship inchanging ableist beliefs and concepts about disability. 3. Conducting Research with the Disability Community: ARights-Based Approach 23 Kelly M. Munger, Donna M. Mertens This chapter explores the philosophical and theoreticalframeworks that are useful for the conduct of research with peoplewith disabilities. 4. When the Black Dog Barks: An Autoethnography of AdultLearning in and on Clinical Depression 35 Stephen Brookfield The author relates his personal learning journey to discoverhow best to cope with clinical depression. 5. Alterity: Learning Polyvalent Selves, Resisting DisablingNotions of the Self 43 Wayland Walker This chapter queries how one type of humandifference--alterity, the experience of multiple distinctconsciousnesses or "alters" by one person--ispathologized in American culture. 6. Learning and Adaptation After Diagnosis: The Role ofParent Education 53 Thomas G. Reio, Jr., Sandra L. Fornes The authors explore their learning and adaptation afterdiagnosis of their own children's disability and offersuggestions for navigating the resources available to parents. 7. Challenges and Opportunities of Operation EnduringFreedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom Veterans with DisabilitiesTransitioning into Learning and Workplace Environments 63 Fariba Ostovary, Janet Dapprich An overview of issues related to transitioning from themilitary to civilian workplace and learning environments ofdisabled military servicemen/women is presented in thischapter. 8. Revisiting Debates on Learning Disabilities in AdultEducation 75 Alisa Belzer, Jovita Ross-Gordon In light of the current policy emphasis on evidence-basedinstruction, this chapter discusses two recent publications onadult learning disabilities that view it as largely a cognitivedisorder and fail to attend to adult learning theory and theimportance of a socio-cultural perspective. 9. Americans with Disabilities Act as Amended: Principles andPractice 85 Lorenzo Bowman This chapter reviews the impact of amendments and regulationsthat have updated the ADA in its twentieth year with an emphasis onemployment and adult and higher education. 10. Moving Forward: Two Paradigms and Takeaways 97 Tonette S. Rocco This chapter reviews the major themes discussed in the textregarding disability and presents takeaways for adult education Index 103