| Title | 8. Total Communication, bad conscience and the shifts in deaf education (1969-1981) |
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| Landing page | https://ujonlinepress.uj.ac.za/index.php/ujp/catalog/book/200 |
| Publisher | UJ Press |
| Published on | 2025-05-29 |
| Long abstract | After 1969, cracks appear in educators’ support for the oral method of deaf education. In the USA and in South Africa, educators look to the simultaneous use of sign language and speaking in the classroom as an alternative to a pure oralism known as Total Communication. This combined method gained more traction in schools and opened up the way for more extensive use of sign language. Reading from a Levinasian perspective shows that educators had developed a ‘bad conscience’ and therefore undermining the totalising and hegemonic sway that the oral method of deaf education held for so long. |