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Smagorinsky, Peter

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“…Two terms were borrowed from Autism studies, 'neurotypical', to represent sound‐minded folk, and its obverse 'neurodivergent', characterizing the 'insane' or persons with mental health histories (Smagorinsky, ). Neurodivergent means "not neurotypical and neurodivergence is divergence from neurotypical norms" (Smagorinsky, , p. 27). Neurodivergence is used here to contrast neurotypicality, much the same as 'saneness' is contrasted with 'insanity' (Oaks, ).…”

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Silence or Sanism: A Review of the Dearth of Discussions on Mental Illness in Adult Education

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2017

New Horizons in Adult Education and Human Resource Development

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This literature review engages mental illness in adult education (AE) to locate what research exists and to suggest a research agenda moving forward. This structured review located research related to mental health issues published in the conference proceedings of the Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education (CASAE) and the Adult Education Research Conference (AERC) and fourteen international AE journals. AE scholarship focused on identity construction, andragogy and classroom issues, public pedagogy, popular education and arts‐based education, contesting psychiatric knowledge and sanism, and workplace.

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Silence or Sanism: A Review of the Dearth of Discussions on Mental Illness in Adult Education

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2017

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“…Rather than working from the perspective of what a person with a disability lacks, there are proponents who seek to work with these people’s talents and their development. This is Smagorinsky’s (2016) position, who states that young people with autism require the context to be adapted or constructed for them to make their greatest contributions. Among his proposals, this author emphasizes that theater and drama are an option for people with autism to relate to others with or without such condition and to themselves and their own needs.…”

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Digital Fabrication and Theater: Developing Social Skills in Young Adults With Autism Spectrum Disorder

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2021

Front. Psychol.

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An action research project was carried out, using theater workshops and basic digital fabrication technology workshops to improve social skills—such as the expression of emotions, communication, self-control, and teamwork—in a group of 10 young individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). This article focuses on the digital fabrication workshops, where participants worked on the fundamentals of electronics and programming, as well as 3D design and printing, to make props that were later used on stage in the theatrical performances in which they participated. These workshops were systematized through observation guides. According to the results, it was evident that the participants not only enjoyed and gained technological knowledge, but that their social skill development needs were addressed. Professionals from the Special Education Faculty and the Fab Lab Kä Träre, both from Universidad Estatal a Distancia in Costa Rica, were in charge of the study during its first phase, executed in 2016 and 2017.

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“…Where necessary I use official clinical labels when referring to my own psychic status or regression. I also borrow two terms from autism studies: ‘neurotypicality’ is typified by sound citizens, and its obverse ‘neurodivergence’ characterizes citizens whose diverging neurotypes are inscribed as mental illness (Smagorinsky, ). In addition, ‘normate’ is a term diffused throughout this text.…”

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The Pedagogy of Saneness: Sane-Centricity in Popular Culture as Pedagogy

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This article is an autoethnographic vignette of a schizoaffective sufferer learning about ‘saneness’ from slasher films. In this paper, theories from popular culture as pedagogy, Mad Studies, and cultivation theory, are used to confirm that saneness in motion pictures (specifically slasher films) can be conceptualized as a site of critical pedagogy. In addition, this paper relates the ways in which sane performativity in slasher films is consumable and made educative by inducting a new notion into adult education and Mad Studies: the pedagogy of saneness. This paper concludes that in order for viewers to steady their shattered psyches they have to learn to live with their ‘abnormality’ rather than shirk it into oblivion.

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Introduction

Cited by 4 publications

References 11 publications

Silence or Sanism: A Review of the Dearth of Discussions on Mental Illness in Adult Education

Silence or Sanism: A Review of the Dearth of Discussions on Mental Illness in Adult Education

Digital Fabrication and Theater: Developing Social Skills in Young Adults With Autism Spectrum Disorder

The Pedagogy of Saneness: Sane-Centricity in Popular Culture as Pedagogy

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