2010
DOI: 10.1353/aad.0.0118
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Epistemology and People Who Are Deaf: Deaf Worldviews, Views of the Deaf World, or My Parents Are Hearing

Abstract: Epistemology is examined from two different perspectives within the framework of a broader evolutionary epistemology. Within this framework, reality is not absolute, and truth is a relative concept. People construct individual or personal epistemologies through their experiences, and develop or receive group or socially constructed epistemologies through their interactions with others with shared or similar experiences. There is a common perception that Deaf culture and Deaf epistemologies have been transmitte… Show more

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“…I followed the 'free form' approach to creating eco-maps (Rogers 2017) rather than forcing a pre-determined structure on the maps. Again, this followed a key aspect of deaf epistemologies, that of the face-to-face 'oral' tradition (Bahan 2006), allowing each individual to show their own experience through personal testimony (Holcomb 2010), and for our collective deaf worldview to come to the fore through shared experiences (Miller 2010).…”
Section: Eco-mappingmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…I followed the 'free form' approach to creating eco-maps (Rogers 2017) rather than forcing a pre-determined structure on the maps. Again, this followed a key aspect of deaf epistemologies, that of the face-to-face 'oral' tradition (Bahan 2006), allowing each individual to show their own experience through personal testimony (Holcomb 2010), and for our collective deaf worldview to come to the fore through shared experiences (Miller 2010).…”
Section: Eco-mappingmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The communication vacuum and the inability to communicate with the world are the first of many cultural experiences that show that individuals are different and belong to deaf culture. When deaf individuals become exposed to sign language and other deaf people, the enculturation process is complete, and deaf people identify themselves as ethnically deaf (Miller, 2010). The perception of deafness as ethnicity is more due to different feelings towards ways of communicating.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%