Paulo Freire, Disability, and Sociological Consciousness in a Southern Metropolis: The Knoxville Mayor’s Council on Disability Issues
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government, social change, Freire
Abstract
This article examines attitudes and opinions among members of the Mayor’s Council on Disability Issues (CODI) of Knoxville, Tennessee. Using focused interviews, respondent commentary is presented on topics such as the disability rights movement, employment and education, the nature of defining disability, and the functionality and relative importance of CODI as a whole. Paulo Freire’s (1968) model of oppression is used as a frame of reference to examine CODI members’ attitudinal assumptions of these issues.
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Matthew West, University of Alabama, Birmingham
Matthew West is a doctoral student in the Medical Sociology PhD program at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. His primary research interests focus on education, social change, and religion. He teaches undergraduate courses at the University of Alabama and Bevill State, including: Sociology of Religion, Contemporary Social Problems, and Introduction to Sociology. This paper was completed as part of his senior undergraduate research project.