The Tactile Reading Systems in East Asia: Missionaries, Colonialism, and Unintended Consequences
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| Title: | The Tactile Reading Systems in East Asia: Missionaries, Colonialism, and Unintended Consequences |
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| Language: | English |
| Authors: | Tasing Chiu |
| Source: | Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education. 2024 60(4):616-633. |
| Availability: | Routledge. Available from: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. 530 Walnut Street Suite 850, Philadelphia, PA 19106. Tel: 800-354-1420; Tel: 215-625-8900; Fax: 215-207-0050; Web site: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals |
| Peer Reviewed: | Y |
| Page Count: | 18 |
| Publication Date: | 2024 |
| Document Type: | Journal Articles Reports - Evaluative |
| Descriptors: | Educational History, Blindness, Foreign Countries, Tactile Adaptation, Students with Disabilities, Reading Materials, Reading Instruction, Japanese, Colonialism, Braille, Educational Discrimination, Disability Discrimination, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Equal Education, Service Occupations, Religious Factors, Religious Organizations, Protestants, Individual Differences, Asians |
| Geographic Terms: | Taiwan, South Korea |
| DOI: | 10.1080/00309230.2023.2269860 |
| ISSN: | 0030-9230 1477-674X |
| Abstract: | In the late nineteenth century, Protestant missionaries introduced modern education for the blind people in Taiwan and Korea. They developed various tactile reading systems to enhance literacy and provided handicraft training for self-sufficiency. When these regions came under Japanese colonial rule in the first half of the twentieth century, the colonial government introduced Japanese Braille and massage training for blind students. However, most of these training programmes fell short in effectively equipping blind individuals for sustaining their livelihoods upon completing their education. As a result, paradoxically, tactile reading systems initially designed to discourage blind individuals from participating in traditional fortune-telling practices ended up inadvertently catalysing the modernisation of these longstanding traditions. This case study highlights the intricate and diverse nature of special education in East Asia. |
| Abstractor: | As Provided |
| Entry Date: | 2024 |
| Accession Number: | EJ1434756 |
| Database: | ERIC |
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| Abstract: | In the late nineteenth century, Protestant missionaries introduced modern education for the blind people in Taiwan and Korea. They developed various tactile reading systems to enhance literacy and provided handicraft training for self-sufficiency. When these regions came under Japanese colonial rule in the first half of the twentieth century, the colonial government introduced Japanese Braille and massage training for blind students. However, most of these training programmes fell short in effectively equipping blind individuals for sustaining their livelihoods upon completing their education. As a result, paradoxically, tactile reading systems initially designed to discourage blind individuals from participating in traditional fortune-telling practices ended up inadvertently catalysing the modernisation of these longstanding traditions. This case study highlights the intricate and diverse nature of special education in East Asia. |
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| ISSN: | 0030-9230 1477-674X |
| DOI: | 10.1080/00309230.2023.2269860 |
