Asiste a la octava conferencia de SHIFT INTERNACIONAL 2018. Ponente: Audrey C. Cooper
Más sobre la ponente:
Audrey has worked most extensively on the Intergenerational Deaf Education Outreach Project—Vietnam (2011 to 2014; a project of the World Bank), serving on the design team, as a technical consultant and as an international trainer. A public and linguistic anthropologist, Audrey’s research and international development practice concentrates on educational inequality and related social movements, particularly for Deaf people in Việt Nam and the Southeast Asian region. Audrey is the author and co-author of a number of peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on Việt Nam, as well as the 2017 single-author book Deaf to the Marrow: Deaf Social Organizing and Active Citizenship in Việt Nam. She is also the co-editor of the 2015 volume Citizenship, Politics, Difference: Perspectives from Sub-Saharan African Communities. Audrey also holds master degrees in social work and dance/movement therapy, with which she concentrated on multicultural foundations of clinical and community health. A nationally certified ASL-English interpreter, Audrey is also proficient in Hồ Chí Minh Sign Language and conversational-level Vietnamese.
“La única persona que está educada es la que ha aprendido cómo aprender y cambiar.”