Exploring Experiences of University Students with Learning Disabilities
Shaping Student Engagement in South Africa
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Exploring Experiences of University Students with Learning Disabilities
Shaping Student Engagement in South Africa
About this book
This book offers a groundbreaking investigation into issues of gender, power and the representation of sovereignty in French Baroque court ballet â and in today's performances that recall them. Mark Franko uses powerful interpretive tools derived from historiography and critical theory, especially the work of German-Jewish philosopher Walter Benjamin, to offer the reader both a historical and a theoretical interpretation of this genre of dance in France (c. 1615â1654), as well as its aftermath and legacy today. Through doing so, he reaches conclusions about how sovereignty and power were both perceived by viewers at the time and how they were represented through dance, given that it was the noble class who devised and performed court ballets. He enquires into the role of choreography and theatricality as potentially critical forces operating at the heart of sovereignty. Franko places the work of Louis Marin on power, representation and movement in French Baroque painting and performance in juxtaposition to that of Benjamin on theater. Other historians whose work is prominent in this study are Ernst Kantorowicz, Michel Foucault and JosĂ© Antonio Maravall. With wide breadth in the work of historians, philosophers, political scientists, critical theorists, musicologists and dance historians, this is the culmination of a career's-worth of scholarship and research in the field.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Halftitle Page
- Dedication Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Series Editorsâ Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Theoretical Perspectives on Disability
- 3 Education and Disability in South Africa: Challenges and Progress on Inclusive Higher Education
- 4 The Capability Approach and Its Applicability to Disability in Higher Education
- 5 Methodological Account
- 6 Learning Disabilities in Higher Education: Studentsâ Experiences and Lecturersâ Concerns
- 7 Institutional Social Arrangements for Students with Learning Disabilities
- 8 Conversion Factors That Influence the University Experiences of Students with Learning Disabilities
- 9 Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Index
- Imprint
- Backcover