Education: Lesson Details
Objectives
1. To learn about the biographical history of Laurent Clerc, Thomas Gallaudet and Mason Cogswell and understand their respective motivations regarding deaf education.
2. To assess the cultural and religious climate in the United States in the early nineteenth century and specifically how Protestantism influenced deaf education policies and practices.
3. To consider how the usage of language describing the deaf and deaf education has evolved over time from 1810 to the present.
4. To examine the contract between Clerc and Gallaudet to determine its significance with regard to religion and Clerc’s responsibilities as a deaf educator.
Materials
Background Essays
- Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb
- Monsieur Laurent Clerc
- Religion In Nineteenth-Century America
- Rev. Thomas Gallaudet
Annotated & Abridged Documents
- Contract Between Thomas Gallaudet And Laurent Clerc
- Eighth Report Of The Directors Of The American Asylum, At Hartford, For The Education And Instruction Of The Deaf And Dumb, Exhibited To The Asylum, May 15, 1824
- Mason Cogswell To John Braidwood, April 20, 1812
- Report Of The Committee Of The Connecticut Asylum For The Education And Instruction Of Deaf And Dumb Persons
- Sermon, On The Duties And Advantages Of Affording Instruction To The Deaf And Dumb