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In nineteenth-century Spain, the education of deaf students took shape through various contradictory philosophies and practices. Susan Plann depicts this ambivalence by profiling a select group of teachers and students in her detailed history The Spanish National Deaf School: Portraits from the Nineteenth Century.Plann's subjects reveal the political, financial, and identity issues that dominated the operation of the National School for Deaf-Mutes and the Blind in Madrid from 1805 to1899. Roberto Francisco PrĂĄdez y Gautier, the first deaf teacher in Spain, taught art from 1805â36; he also was the last deaf teacher for the next 50 years. Juan Manuel Ballesteros, the hearing director from 1835 to1868, enacted an "ableist" policy that barred deaf professors. At the same time, another hearing teacher, Francisco FernĂĄndez Villabrille, wrote the first Spanish Sign Language dictionary. In the 1870s, two deaf students, Manuel Tinoco and Patricio GarcĂa, resisted the physical abuse they received and set the stage for the growth of a Deaf identity that opposed the deprecating medical model of deafness. Marcelina Ruiz Ricote y FernĂĄndez a hearing female teacher who taught from 1869 to 1897, combated the school's sexist polices. The Spanish National Deaf School concludes with MartĂn de MartĂn y Ruiz, the most famous deaf-blind student from the Madrid school. Through these portraits, Plann has brought life to the major issues that defined education in nineteenth-century Spain, themes that have influenced the status of deaf Spaniards today.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Timeline
- Prologue
- 1. Auspicious Beginnings: Roberto Francisco PrĂĄdez y Gautier
- 2. The Gatekeeper: Juan Manuel Ballesteros
- 3. The Teacherâs Noble Work: Francisco FernĂĄndez Villabrille
- 4. The Seeds of Deaf Resistance: Manuel Tinoco
- 5. The Fruit of Deaf Resistance: Patricio GarcĂa
- 6. In the Name of Woman: Marcelina Ruiz Ricote y Fernandez
- 7. Wisdom beyond the Senses: MartĂn de MartĂn y Ruiz
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Index