Journal article
The moral case for sign language education
- Abstract:
- Here, a moral case is presented as to why sign languages such as Auslan should be made compulsory in general school curricula. Firstly, there are significant benefits that accrue to individuals from learning sign language. Secondly, sign language education is a matter of justice; the normalisation of sign language education and use would particularly benefit marginalised groups, such as those living with a communication disability. Finally, the integration of sign languages into the curricula would enable the flourishing of Deaf culture and go some way to resolving the tensions that have arisen from the promotion of oralist education facilitated by technologies such as cochlear implants. There are important reasons to further pursue policy proposals regarding the prioritisation of sign language in school curricula.
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1007/s40592-019-00101-0
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- Springer Nature
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- Monash Bioethics Review More from this journal
- Volume:
- 37
- Issue:
- 3-4
- Pages:
- 94–110
- Publication date:
- 2019-11-23
- Acceptance date:
- 2019-11-14
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1321-2753
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- 2019
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- © The Author(s) 2019. Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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