DEE 607 Mad Studies

Mad Studies is an interdisciplinary field of scholarship, theory, and activism that explores the experiences, history, culture, and politics of people who identify as "mad," psychiatric survivors, or neurodivergent. The repercussions of sanism, a form of systemic discrimination and oppression directed against individuals who are labeled or perceived as having a mental illness, will be examined across time and context. The role of sanism in assessment practices, exclusion, schooling, and confinement will be examined. The principles of Mad Studies will be employed to reconceptualize practice and policy that rejects deficit models and embraces a broad diversity of psychic states, emotions, behaviors, beliefs, and experiences.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

Acceptance in the Ed.D. or Ed.S. in Teaching and Learning or permission from the instructor.

Corequisite

None