عنوان

Questions of competence :

0521623030

0521626625

9780521623032

9780521626620

b739143

Questions of competence :

[Book]

culture, classification and intellectual disability /

edited by Richard Jenkins.

New York :

Cambridge University Press,

1998.

ix, 250 pages ;

24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-245) and index.

Culture, classification, and (in)competence / Richard Jenkins -- Mental disability in the United States: an interactionist perspective / Michael V. Angrosino -- (In)competence in America in comparative perspective / Patrick J. Devlieger -- Risk, resilience, and competence: parents with learning difficulties and their children / Tim Booth and Wendy Booth -- Constructing other selves: (in)competences and the category of learning difficulties / Charlotte Aull Davies -- Work, opportunity, and culture: (in)competence in Greece and Wales / Sylvia van Maastricht -- Slow cookers and madmen: competence of heart and head in rural Uganda / Susan Reynolds Whyte -- States and categories: indigenous models of personhood in northwest Greenland / Mark Nuttall -- Learning to become (in)competent: children in Belize speak out / Nancy Lundgren -- Towards a social model of (in)competence / Richard Jenkins.

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This collection of essays examines the classification of people as competent & incompetent in the United States, England, Wales, Greece, Greenland, Uganda, & Belize. The contributors argue that it is time for a new understanding of intellectual disability.

Learning disabled, Cross-cultural studies.

People with mental disabilities, Cross-cultural studies.

Cross-Cultural Comparison.

Developmental Disabilities-- ethnology.

Intellectual Disability-- ethnology.

Learning Disabilities-- ethnology.

Mental Competency.

Mentally Disabled Persons.

Handicapés mentaux, Études transculturelles.

Personnes en difficulté d'apprentissage, Études transculturelles.

71.71 mentally handicapped.

Aufsatzsammlung

Déficiences intellectuelles-- Etudes transculturelles.

Geestelijk gehandicapten.

Geistige Behinderung

Handicapés mentaux-- Études transculturelles.

Interculturele vergelijking.

Kulturvergleich

Learning disabled.

Leermoeilijkheden.

Lernbehinderung

People with mental disabilities.

Jenkins, Richard,1952-

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