The hunt for disability: The new eugenics and the normalization of school children

By B. Baker. 2002

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Subfields: Education, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science

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Disability Studies and Inclusive Teacher Preparation: A Socially Just Path for Teacher Education (2012, background): “" However, we have to be careful not to simply broaden our conceptualization of normative performance, moving the boundaries further out but still holding on to the concept (Baker, 2002).”
Cross-Pollinating Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy and Universal Design for Learning: Toward an Inclusive Pedagogy that Accounts for Dis/Ability (2016, background): “While racism is generally understood as a concept, ableism is discrimination informed by the eugenics-grounded assumption that it is better to be “normal” than disabled (Baker, 2002).”
An Illusory Interiority: Interrogating the discourse/s of inclusion (2007, background): “This paper aims to pick up the conversation from Bernadette Baker (2002) when she questions the ‘hunt for disability’ by asking, What power relations inhere the production of categories such as normal and abnormal?”
Leaving No Child behind Yet Allowing None Too Far Ahead: Ensuring (In)Equity in Mathematics Education through the Science of Measurement and Instruction (2008, background): “Although it may seem to make good sense to base educational decisionmaking on the “objective truth” of science, it is important to recall that at the start of the previous century, a similar trust in scientific truth in the form of eugenics research—a project aimed at producing a better populace thr”
Disability Justifies Exclusion of Minority Students: A Critical History Grounded in Disability Studies (2006, background): “Ableism, intertwined with the ideology of normalcy, is the assumption, rooted in eugenics, that it is better to be as “normal” as possible rather than be disabled (Baker, 2002).”