'Know me as I am' : an anthology of prose, poetry and art by people with learning difficulties
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'Know me as I am' : an anthology of prose, poetry and art by people with learning difficulties
Hodder & Stoughton in association with the Open University, 1990
Available at 2 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-246) and index
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Description and Table of Contents
Description
An anthology of prose, poetry and art by people with learning difficulties. It contains over 200 contributions communicated through speech, writing, sign language, word-processing, drawing, painting and photography. The contents of the book challenges preconceptions and stereotypes about people labelled as "mentally handicapped", and gives readers the opportunity to understand the world from the point of view of someone with learning difficulties. This is a course book for students on Open University course K668 "Mental Handicap"
Table of Contents
- An anthology - the origins of the idea
- the development of autobiographical accounts from people with learning difficulties
- the importance of the development of autobiographical accounts
- background to this anthology
- the structure of the anthology - a sense of self
- memories
- relationships
- transitions
- creativity, imagination and fantasy
- my daily life
- experiences of oppression
- struggle and self-determination
- three life histories
- conclusion - main themes
- implications for research
- further reserach.
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