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ERIC Number: EJ1302896
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2021
Pages: 5
Abstractor: ERIC
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ISSN: ISSN-0037-7724
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The 1977 Disability Protests: A Case Study for Civic Action Strategies
Harris, Wendy
Social Education, v85 n3 p143-147 May-Jun 2021
The C3 Framework prompts middle school and high school students to assess the ways people have worked to promote the common good. The College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework. It also summons students to take informed action. One way that Wendy Harris, a high school social studies teacher at a Deaf school in Saint Paul, MN, advance this goal is through a civic engagement project in which students have to take an action of their choice about an issue that is important to them. She developed a lesson focused on the 1977 Section 504 protests. Section 504 is the part of the 1973 Rehabilitation Act that prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities in federally-funded programs. In 1977, frustrated that Section 504 regulations had not yet been established, individuals and groups began to mobilize in protest. Overall, she found this lesson helped students analyze protest and activism strategies that they have been seeing in the news, while also determining what type of civic action they personally could take on issues important to them. Explicitly teaching intersectionality while looking at a protest with powerful, far-reaching results shines a spotlight on often-excluded history in school curriculum while also showing creative and impactful actions that individuals can take together to make change.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Laws, Policies, & Programs: Americans with Disabilities Act 1990; Rehabilitation Act 1973 (Section 504)
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