Disability Studies as a Liberatory Project: Implications for the Classroom

Although disability studies (DS) coalesced as a field of critical theory in the late 1980s, DS has yet to gain widespread acknowledgement and acceptance among critical theories, university curricula, and the academy. From the perspective of liberation theology, DS destabilizes, problematizing race and ethnicity as the current bases of minoritized identities. That liberation theology is viewed as a "thing of the past" indicates the tenacious hold of an unspoken center of privilege. Though highly contextualized, unexamined privilege continues to operate as though universal, objective, and neutral. If liberation theology is spoken of in the past tense, what are the implications for minoritized identities, generally, and disability as a little-recognized minority identity, in particular? Universal Design for Learning (UDL) stands at the intersection of liberationist projects and disability studies. Disability studies offers a vantage point from which to question assumptions about pedagogical practices in the classroom, and UDL provides a liberatory conceptual frame and practical strategies to redress the inequalities in education faced by people with disabilities

Introduction to a New Series of Studies of Ordovician Echinoderms

A massive collection of Ordovician echinoderms has been accumulated primarily from northeastern Iowa and southeastern Minnesota but including material from other states; it is in process of being studied. A brief history of the inception of the study and the process of bringing the material together is presented. Individuals are named but only brief details are given. Primarily this is a report of a concentrated effort to produce a significant study of echinoderms from Middle and Upper Ordovician strata, the people involved and the methods of obtaining material

“And They Shall Eat Until They Are Satisfied:” Critical Disability Theory and Widows, Orphans, Aliens, and Levites in the Book of Deuteronomy

This dissertation considers the construction of widows, orphans, aliens, and Levites in deuteronomic law. Making use of multiple methodologies, literary criticism, Disability Studies, and food and foodway studies, this study argues that, in Deuteronomy, the members of the formulaic reference, “the alien, the orphan, and the widow,” often associated with “the Levite” operate as cultic functionaries and participate in cultic meals in order to secure stability and continuing abundance in the land for all of Israel

New Chesterian (Upper Mississippian) crinoids from Illinois

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A Preliminary Study of Echinoderms with the Aid of a Scanning Electron Microscope

A microcrinoid (Passalocrinus), camerate crinoid (Dichocrinus) and small blastoid (Diploblastus) are examined at high magnification and reveal latticework endoskeletal plates with slightly varied patterns of voids and interlocking rods. Cirrals from the base of a modern comatulid are illustrated for comparison

Middle Pennsylvanian (Atokan) crinoids from Oklahoma and Missouri

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Erisocrinids (Crinoidea-Inadunata) from Middle Pennsylvanian Rocks of Iowa and Colorado

Erisocrinus knoxvillensis n. sp. is described from rocks of the Desmoinesian Stage exposed near Knoxville, Marion County, Iowa. Two specimens from the Madera Formation, Desmoinesian Stage, Heurfano Park, Colorado, reported by Tischler, 1963, as belonging to the genus Erisocrinus are described as Exaetocrinus maderaensis n. sp. and Pontotocrinus coloradoensis n. sp. The lectoholotype of Erisocrinus typus Meek & Worthen, type species of the genus, is illustrated

Occurrence of Cranocrinus Wanner in North America

The cladid inadunate genus Cranocrinus Wanner is typically from Upper Permian rocks of the Island of Timor, Indonesia, and has been reported from Lower Permian rocks of the Ural Mountains of Russia. Arendt (1970) has demonstrated that juvenile C. praestans lacks radials (is pseudomonocyclic) while adult specimens have radials (are dicyclic). Both conditions are noted for C. eximius n. sp. from Morrowan (Lower Pennsylvanian) rocks of Oklahoma and are described herein. Possible methods of feeding and respiration are considered in the discussion of Cranocrinus

A New Edrioasteroid

Two specimens of an edrioasteroid in excellent preservation have been found in the Pella beds, Upper Mississippian, by Amel Priest of Peru, Iowa at an abandoned quarry northeast of Knoxville, Marion County, Iowa. The interior of the theca is exposed in the smaller specimen and the existence of a stone canal is disclosed. The species is described as Discocystis priesti, new species

The Crinoid Genus Sygcaulocrinus from Iowa

Attention is called to the synonomy of Ectenocrinus elongatus Thomas and Ladd, 1926, with Sygcaulocrinus typus Ulrich, 1924, both from the Ft. Atkinson Member, Maquoketa Formation (Ordovician), and to the probable bottom dwelling habitat of the species. Comparison is made with some Upper Paleozoic crinoids which are known to have been bottom dwellers. An accident in preparation of a specimen disclosed the solid base of the cup and the solid summit of the proximal columnal, both of which are illustrated