TPEE - Social Approach to the Study of Disabilities

Code: EES267.13

Total Credits: 4 credits

Subject Profile: Optional

Syllabus: Brief history of theoretical approaches in the study of disability. Common sense theories x scientific theories; Medical model; Psychopedagogical model; Social model. Contributions of sociological and anthropological approaches to the study of disability; Irving Goffman: stigma theory and symbolic interactionism; Howard Becker: The Theory of Labeling. Chicago School Contributions; Norbert Elias: sociology of power relations; The English School of "Disabilities Studies"; Robert Murphy and the liminality theory; Critical Theory of Disability. Implications of the social approach in current theoretical and political formulations related to the issue of (d)efficiency; The Social Model in the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (CIF, 2003); Theoretical assumptions of Brazilian policy on disability issues: critical analysis of current legal and official documents.

Main Bibliography:

1. MENDES, Enicéia G.. Reconstruindo a Concepção de Deficiência na Formação de Recursos Humanos em Educação Especial. In: Maria Cristina Marquezine; Maria Amélia Almeida; Eliza Dieko Oshiro Tanaka. (Org.). Perspectivas Multidisciplinares em Educação Especial. 1 ed. Londrina: Editora da UEL,2001,v.1,p.53-64.
2. MENDES, Enicéia G. Modelos educacionais e pedagógicos para a deficiência mental. Mimeo (Texto não publicado) 1998.
3. GOFFMAN, Erving. Estigma? Notas sobre a Manipulação da Identidade Deteriorada. 4 ed. Trad. Marcia Bandeira de Mello Leite Nunes. Rio de Janeiro: Guanabara, Koogan, 1988.
4. CUNHA, Sandra Mestre. Estigma. Disponível em http://www.scribd.com/doc/6889132/estigma. Acesso em 04 ago 2009.
5. MEDEIROS, Patrícia Lins Gomes. Aspectos do poder e do cotidiano em Norbert Elias. Revista Eletrônica dos Pós- Graduandos em Sociologia Política da UFSC Vol. 3 n. 2 (2), janeiro-julho/2007, p. 168-181