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Disability Studies: Student-Professor Co-Teaching
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B. Bixby Teaching & Learning Conference 2-05 Arizona International College
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have arisen in an upscale nursing home, and certainly not that early in herstay. But Eastwood wasn't interested in reality, like other normalfilmmakers who make movies about the disabled, they are dealing in the grandmyths and legends that surround the idea of disability rather than thereality of living with a disability.
It is true that "Million Dollar Baby" is only a film, but when it comes timefor many people to make health decisions about themselves or a loved one'sfuture, what experience or knowledge will they fall back on? Few people havepersonal experience with severe disabilities, and few will take the time tofind out about what life is like living with deafness, blindness ordisability. No, most people will fall back on what they know -- which iswhat they have garnered from novels, plays, films and television shows. So,it's only when such art forms begin to reflect the real lives of people withdisabilities, will most folks get a better understanding of the 15 to 20percent of Americans who live and cope daily with disabilities.
Copyright C 2005, Chicago Tribune
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| | Authors: Bixby, Barbara. and Ortiz, Naomi. |
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B. Bixby Teaching & Learning Conference 2-05 Arizona International College
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have arisen in an upscale nursing home, and certainly not that early in her
stay. But Eastwood wasn't interested in reality, like other normal
filmmakers who make movies about the disabled, they are dealing in the grand
myths and legends that surround the idea of disability rather than the
reality of living with a disability.
It is true that "Million Dollar Baby" is only a film, but when it comes time
for many people to make health decisions about themselves or a loved one's
future, what experience or knowledge will they fall back on? Few people have
personal experience with severe disabilities, and few will take the time to
find out about what life is like living with deafness, blindness or
disability. No, most people will fall back on what they know -- which is
what they have garnered from novels, plays, films and television shows. So,
it's only when such art forms begin to reflect the real lives of people with
disabilities, will most folks get a better understanding of the 15 to 20
percent of Americans who live and cope daily with disabilities.
Copyright C 2005, Chicago Tribune
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