Course: Multicultural Perspectives of Disability

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Course title Multicultural Perspectives of Disability
Course code KSS/CMP
Organizational form of instruction Lesson + Seminary
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 3
Language of instruction English
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements Course does not contain work placement
Recommended optional programme components None
Course availability The course is available to visiting students
Lecturer(s)
  • Jihlavec Jan, Mgr. DiS.
Course content
1. Basic terminology 2. Health disorders and their conceptions 3. Institutions to compensate the disorders 4. Humanization of care for people with health disorders 5. Culture and subculture as frames of lives of the people with disorders 6. Future coexistence of subculture and its prognosis

Learning activities and teaching methods
Dialogue metods(conversation,discussion,brainstorming), Self-study (text study, reading, problematic tasks, practical tasks, experiments, research, written assignments), Written assignment presentation and defence, Active metods (simulation, situational contingency methods, drama,acting, namagerial acting )
  • Class attendance - 18 hours per semester
  • Preparation for credit - 32 hours per semester
  • Semestral paper - 40 hours per semester
Learning outcomes
Students learn the basic terms of social, family, economic, political, and culture context of disability. The main focus is on the underestanding of developing proces and progres within the institutional system treating the people with disabilities in euroepan social and political context.
Students learn the basic terms of social, family, economic, political, and culture context of disability. The main focus is on the underestanding of developing proces and progres within the institutional system treating the people with disabilities in euroepan social and political context
Prerequisites
Fluent Eglish.

Assessment methods and criteria
Student's performance analysis

To gain the credit students must join the seminar and write a semestral thesis. Other demands are specified by the lecture.
Recommended literature
  • BROWN,K., RUTTER, L. Critical Thinking for Social Work.. Exeter: Learning Matters Ltd., 2006. ISBN 1-844450-49-X.
  • GATES, B. (ED.). Learning Disabilities Toward Inclusion. London: Churchill Livingstone, 2007. ISBN 978-0443101984.
  • PRIESTLEY, M. Disability. A Life Course Approach. Leeds University: Polity Press, 2003. ISBN 978-0745625133.
  • SNOWLING, M. Dyslexia. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2000. ISBN 0631205748.
  • SWAIN, J. - FRENCH , S. - CAMERON, C. Controversial Issues in a Disabling Society. Buckingham-Philadelphia: Open University Press,, 2003. ISBN 0 -335 -20904 -1.


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