The Case of the Disappearing/Appearing Slow Learner: An Interpretive Mystery. Part Three: All Hell Could Break Loose
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.11575/jah.v0i0.53278Keywords:
hermeneutics, education, slow learners, popular media, disability studies, historyAbstract
This follows the events described in Parts One and Two of this narrative. Max Hunter, a West Coast private detective, still conducting an investigation to find the educational category of slow learners, explores portrayals of slow learners in popular media, learns more about his client, John Williamson, and investigates the history of slow learner as an educational label, and the history of programming for slow learners in the province of Alberta. The case grows more dangerous with each clue Max unearths.
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Alberta Education. (2013). Information manual for knowledge and employability courses. Edmonton, AB, Canada: Author.
Alberta Education. (2012). Special education coding criteria. Edmonton, AB, Canada: Author.
Alberta Teacher's Association. (2009). McQueen wonders why Hancock would “dumb down” diploma examinations. Retrieved from Alberta Teacher's Association:
http://www.teachers.ab.ca/News%20Room/EyeOnTheLegislature/Highlights%20from%20the%20Assembly/2009/Fall2009/Pages/29-Oct-2009.aspx
“A Teacher Called Upon the Classroom…” (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.bepop.com.ar/humor/TeachersJokes2.html.
Braunsberg, A. (Producer), Ashby, H. (Director). (1979). Being there [motion picture]. United States: United Artists.
Camus, A. (1983). The myth of Sisyphus. In A. Camus (Ed.), The myth of Sisyphus and other essays (J. O’Brien, Trans.). New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf.
Chauhan, S. (2011). Slow learners: Their psychology and educational programs. Zenith International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research, 1(8), 279–289. Retrieved from
http://www.zenithresearch.org.in/images/stories/pdf/2011/Dec/zijmr/22_VOL%201_ISSUE8_ZEN.pdf
Cleugh, M.F. (1957). The slow learner: Some educational principles and policies. London, UK: Methuen.
Coolican, J.P. (2010, February 3). Should we be upset by Obama’s latest remarks on Las Vegas? The Las Vegas Sun. Retrieved from http://lasvegassun.com/news/2010/feb/03/much-ado-again/
Davis, L.J. (2013). The end of identity politics. In L.J. Davis (Ed.), The disability studies reader (4th ed.). New York, NY: Routledge.
Ellis, N.A. (1986). Teaching geometry to slow learners (Unpublished master’s thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.
Finerman, W, Tisch, S, & Newirth, C. (Producers), Zemickis, R. (Director). (1994). Forrest Gump [DVD]. United States: Paramount Pictures.
Foucault, M. (1995). Discipline and punish (A. Sheridan, Trans). New York, NY: Vintage.
Foucault, M. (1974). Prisons et asiles dans le mécanisme du pouvoir. In C. O’Farrell (Trans.), Dits et EcritsVolume II. Foucault. Paris, France: Gallimard. Retrieved from http://www.michel-foucault.com/quote/2004q.html.
Grondin, J. (2004). Introduction to philosophical hermeneutics (J. Weinsheimer, Trans.). London, UK: Yale University Press.
Harders Consulting. (1983). Report on the Bev Facey Composite High School academic occupational program and courses. Edmonton, AB, Canada: Alberta Education.
Klassen, R., Neufeld, P., & Munro, F. (2005). When IQ is irrelevant to the definition of learning disabilities: Australian school psychologists’ beliefs and practice. School Psychology International, 26(3), 297-316. doi 10.1177/0143034305055975.
Knobbe, J. (1978). The inception of the junior vocational program in Calgary public schools (Unpublished master’s thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.
Martiniello, N. (2009). Lesson 6: The 'super-crip' phenomenon. Welcome to disability in the media. Retrieved from http://www.trinimex.ca/disabilityinmedia/lesson6.htm
Moules, N. J. (2002). Hermeneutic inquiry: Paying heed to history and Hermes – An ancestral, substantive, and methodological tale. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 1(3), Article 1. Retrieved from http://www.ualberta.ca/~ijqm/
Nyberg, V.R. (1984). Executive summary evaluation of the academic vocational program of the county of Leduc. Edmonton, AB, Canada: Alberta Education.
Richardson, K. (Producer and Director). (2010). The kids are all right [DVD]. United States: The Paul Robeson Fund for Independent Media.
Smart Ass Cripple. (2012, January 30). A burden to society [Web blog post]. Retrieved from http://smartasscripple.blogspot.ca/2012/01/burden-to-society.html.
Smart Ass Cripple. (2012, July 2). Coulda beena borted [Web blog post]. Retrieved from http://smartasscripple.blogspot.ca/2012/07/coulda-beena-borted.html.
Smart Ass Cripple. (2012, January 23). The feeble minded football league [Web blog post]. Retrieved from http://smartasscripple.blogspot.ca/2012/01/feeble-minded-football-league.html.
Smart Ass Cripple. (2011, January 21). Oprah’s death squads [Web blog post]. Retrieved from http://smartasscripple.blogspot.ca/2011_01_21_archive.html.
Smart Ass Cripple. (2012, September 14). Where’s the keeper? [Web blog post]. Retrieved from http://smartasscripple.blogspot.ca/2012/09/wheres-keeper.html.
Smith, P. (2010). Introduction: Whatever happened to inclusion? The place of students with intellectual disabilities in education. In P. Smith (Ed.), Whatever happened to inclusion: The place of students with intellectual disabilities in education (pp. 1-20). New York, NY: Peter Lang.
stndrds 79. (2010, July 8). Columbo’s great investigative style [video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZiv8vkxMac.
Tremain, S. (2008). Foucault, governmentality, and critical disability theory: An introduction. In S. Tremain (Ed.), Foucault and the government of disability (pp. 1-26). Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.
Vilhauer, M. (2010). Gadamer’s ethics of play: Hermeneutics and the other. Toronto, ON, Canada: Rowman and Littlefield.
Weber, K. (1974). Yes they can: A practical guide for teaching the adolescent slow learner.Toronto, ON, Canada: Methuen.
Wheat, L.F. (2012). Hegel’s undiscovered thesis-antithesis-synthesis dialectic: What only Marx and Tillich understood. New York, NY: Dover.
Wilkins, G., & Miller, S. (1983). Strategies for success: An effective guide for teachers of secondary – level slow learners. New York, NY: Columbia University.
Williamson, W.J. (2004). Understanding work experience: A discourse analysis (Unpublished master’s thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.
Williamson, J. (2005). Working in the real world: Career pathways consultation, assumptions and possibilities. ATA Magazine, 85(4). Retrieved from
http://www.teachers.ab.ca/Publications/ATA%20Magazine/Volume%2085/Number%204/Articles/Pages/Working%20in%20the%20Real%20World.aspx
Williamson. W.J. (2016). The case of the disappearing/appearing slow learner: An interpretive mystery. Part two: Cells of categorical confinement. Journal of Applied Hermeneutics, Article 5.
http://hdl.handle.net/10515/sy5np1x18
Wolf, M., & Stoodley, C. J. (2007). Proust and the squid: The story and science of the reading brain. New York, NY: Harper.
Wood, P. (2004). Lottery. New York, NY: Penguin.
Why does Sea World…(1979). Retrieved from http://laughbreak.com/quotes/comedians-best-lines-1997/
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