Contesting Visions at a Japanese School for the Deaf. (December 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Hayashi, Akiko; Tobin, Joseph
• Is Part Of: Anthropology & education quarterly. Volume 46:Number 4(2015:Dec.)
• Page Start: 380
• Page End: 396
• Publication Date: 2015-12
• Subjects: Japan -- Japanese Sign Language -- language and cultural revitalization -- minority group; Educational anthropology -- Periodicals; Education -- Periodicals; Anthropologie et éducation -- Périodiques; Electronic journals; 306.43
• DOI: 10.1111/aeq.12117
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0161-7761

Abstract

Abstract : This paper tells the story of the struggle to introduce a Japanese sign language program in a school for the deaf in Japan that until recently had followed the government's approach that emphasizes oral communication. Our method and conceptual framework is ethnographic, as we emphasize the cultural beliefs that underlie the three competing positions on deaf education that are in competition at Sapporo School for the Deaf.