A Study of the 1988 NAEA and Its Accessibility to Delegates Experiencing Disabilities

People experiencing disabilities are no longer content to be treated as victims, objects of pity, and passive recipients of charitable impulses. They are aggressively and actively brining discriminatory policies and environments to the public’s attention. This activity is based on newer definitions of disability that do not associate disabilities with individuals, but with policies and environments that fail individuals. This article documents a study of the 1988 National Art Education Association Convention for its accessibility to delegates experiencing auditory, visual, speech, and physical disabilities. The convention and aspects of the convention program are analyzed through the use of guidelines from the Eugene Commission on the Rights of People with Disabilities, The National Endowment for the Arts and The Research and Training Center on Independent Living. Areas of accessibility and inaccessibility are evidenced. Recommendations are given for future convention coordinators, the National Art Education Association Board of Directors and the general membership

Introduction(s) to Men in Feminism

In the Spring of 1988 I received a note from Doug Blandy asking if I wanted to co-ordinate a panel on Men in Feminism with him. The idea of men working with feminist ideas was not new to our discussions. When we worked together at Bowling Green State University, we often wondered (and indeed frequently laughed) at how gender related the reactions of our faculty and students probably were to our successes and failures. Shortly after I agreed to coordinate this panel with Doug, I attended a conference in the Pennsylvanian mountains in Women, Art and Society. This was my first major conference exclusively designed for women dealing with women\u27s issues

As the Cursor Blinks: Electronic Scholarship and Undergraduates in the Library

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Enhancing Employability through Student Engagement in Pro Bono Projects

This paper discusses the findings of a survey carried out by the School of Law at the University of Sheffield, placing it in the context of international research on links between student participation in pro bono projects, and employability. The aim of this survey was to establish whether students’ pro bono experiences assist them in obtaining training and employment. Over the summer of 2016 a survey was sent to current students and to alumni who were (or had been) volunteering at one of the two longest-established pro bono projects run by the School of Law. The paper explains how the survey was designed, conducted and analysed, and discusses the methodological issues which arose.  Although the original aims of the research were not achieved, and perhaps could never have been, the responses to the surveys yielded very useful and rich data. No direct questions were asked about skills development, but the respondents’ unanticipated and unsolicited qualitative comments can be positively mapped onto the key skills and attributes that constitute ‘employability’. The findings set out here therefore add to the small amount of existing literature about student perceptions of how their experiences as pro bono volunteers assist them through placement, training and employment application processes

A clinical study of confusional insanity

In the course of the past six years I have been occupied with the care of the recent admissions to a large public asylum, with a direct admission rate averaging over 160 per annum, including a small proportion of private patients. Among the admissions, patients have from time to time been sent in who presented conditions of delirium such as are often associated with acute physical illness, cases which might not have been out of place in the wards of a general hospital. Such cases have always had for me a particular interest, and not unnaturally so, for are they not those amongst which are to be found some of our most regrettable fatalities, as well as of our most satisfactory and gratifying recoveries.While it is generally admitted that in the light of our present knowledge no scientific classification of mental disorders is possible, yet it is necessary for statistical purposes to tabulate our cases in some way. Prior to 1907, the tables of the Commissioners in Lunacy presented only the one heading of"acute delirious mania" under which such cases as I have hinted at could reasonably be placed. In that year, however, the term "confusional insanity" appear-ed in addition. This led me to inquire what form of mental disorder was implied by this term, and I came to the conclusion that very decided differences of opinion existed among alienists as to the nature of the conditions that should he placed in this category.If any excuse were needed for inquiring into this question, it might he found in the words of Lugaro, who says in reference to this topic: "here is another morbid picture that requires further elucidation."I am not, perhaps, in a position to add much to our knowledge of these interesting and not uncommon forms of mental affection, but it has appeared to me desirable, and possibly not without value, to collect my notes--often, I am afraid, incomplete--on cases that presented delirium or confused states as an integral part of the clinical picture. It is the purpose of this Thesis, therefore, to examine the material which has come under my own observation, and to see how far my own experience bears out the views of modern authorities on the vexed question of confusional insanity, as well as to discuss the problems that a consideration of this material suggests.The cases which will be utilised in this thesis belong solely to the female sex, comprising, with a few exceptions, direct admissions since January 1907.The plan which is here adopted is briefly as follows:- in the first chapter the opinions of accepted authorities are outlined and commented upon, and the absence of unanimity in their views is emphasised.In the second chapter personally observed cases are described in considerable detail, and incidental reference is made to others which present points of interest for my subject: in the third chapter a synthetic study of my cases is given, and in chapter four certain problems presented by a consideration of my material will be discussed. Finally, certain conclusions to which I have been led will be set forth

Arts in Other Places: A Conference Critique

In August, 1986, a conference took place at the University of California Los Angeles called Art in Other Places. This article will critique that conference and make suggestions for further planning of art programs in non-public school settings based on 1) Wolf Wolfensberger\u27s concept of normalization, 2) a recognition of the expressive forms that exist among various constituency groups, and 3) an analysis of long-range ramifications of decision making processes in art planning and programming