1st Edition
The Psychology of Blindness and Visual Culture Towards a New Ecological Model of Visual Impairment
Chapter 1: Introduction
Section 1: The Development of the Western Knowledge on Blindness
Chapter 2: Blindness in Antiquity, Christianity, Islam and Judaism
Chapter 3: Blindness in the Middle Ages Through to the Enlightenment
Chapter 4: Twentieth and Twenty First Century Culture and Blindness
Section 2: Institutionalization, Visual Impairment and Non-Visual Culture
Chapter 5: The Foundation of Early Western Institutions for the Blind
Chapter 6: English Institutional Education of the Blind, 1999
Section 3: Studies of Visual Impairment and Visual Culture
Chapter 7: A Study of Learning Visual Culture after Losing Sight
Chapter 8: A Study of Blind and Visually Impaired Web Coders
Section 4: Conclusion
Chapter 9: Conclusion
References
Biography
Simon Hayhoe is an associate professor in the School of Education, University of Exeter, and an associate of the Scottish Sensory Centre, University of Edinburgh. His writing focuses on visual impairment and visual culture, accessible and inclusive technologies, philosophies of sensory impairment and inclusion and social science research methodology.
