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Damn Bunch of Cripples: My Politically Incorrect Education in Disability Awareness - Couverture souple

Shaver, Lew

 
9780595292547: Damn Bunch of Cripples: My Politically Incorrect Education in Disability Awareness
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0595292542 ISBN 13 : 9780595292547
Editeur : iUniverse, 2003

Synopsis

I was sitting in a small upstairs room attempting to write this narrative of my education in disability awareness. For over 30 years I have been involved in working with individuals with disabilities as a coach and administrator on the intercollegiate, national and international levels. When I started this journey, at a small, Midwestern University, I had no idea of what I was getting myself into. Now that I have traveled this educational path I have come to realize that it may have been one of the most important learning experiences of my life, an experience I feel needs to be shared.In putting this narrative together, one very real issue I struggled with was how to deal with the present climate of political correctness. My decision was to tell the stories as I remember them, in the language as I remember. To do differently would change and compromise the actual experience. Thus, this is a sharing of feelings and experiences that a coach and his athletes spent in timeless hours in a gym practicing and competing, of thousands of miles traveled throughout the United States and beyond, and days and nights spent together in laughter and frustration.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

I was sitting in a small upstairs room attempting to write this narrative of my education in disability awareness. For over 30 years I have been involved in working with individuals with disabilities as a coach and administrator on the intercollegiate, national and international levels. When I started this journey, at a small, Midwestern University, I had no idea of what I was getting myself into. Now that I have traveled this educational path I have come to realize that it may have been one of the most important learning experiences of my life, an experience I feel needs to be shared.In putting this narrative together, one very real issue I struggled with was how to deal with the present climate of political correctness. My decision was to tell the stories as I remember them, in the language as I remember. To do differently would change and compromise the actual experience. Thus, this is a sharing of feelings and experiences that a coach and his athletes spent in timeless hours in a gym practicing and competing, of thousands of miles traveled throughout the United States and beyond, and days and nights spent together in laughter and frustration.

Biographie de l'auteur

Lew Shaver was a Professor at Southwest Minnesota State University. He is a member of the Southwest University Athletic Hall of Honor, the Central Intercollegiate Conference Hall of Fame and the National Wheelchair Basketball Association Hall of Fame. He is retired and resides with his wife Judy in Canby, Minnesota.

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Éditeur
iUniverse
Date d'édition
2003
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0595292542
ISBN 13 
9780595292547
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
154
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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