Dear all,
I am currently putting together a new undergraduate course for our
social policy and social work students (for the new undergraduate
social work degree course and our social policy joint honours
degree) which will probably be called something like 'Disability,
society and social policy'. The aim will be to give students a
thorough understanding of the theoretical models of disability and
then to use those to critically examine the way social policy
impacts on disabled people's social inclusion/exclusion over their
life course: so to look at education, benefits, work, parenting,
ageing, as well as how disability impacts on other social divisions
such as gender, age, race, poverty, impairment etc. At the minute,
particularly our social work students only get a short session on
the social model of disability and only see disabled people as
service users and I want to move away from that.
I do have some ideas for texts to use but I have been trapped in
health services research for the past decade so they aren't
necessarily up to date. Does anyone have suggestions for favourite
edited collections which could form core texts for a course like
this? It does not necessarily have to be just UK focussed.
Cheers
Kirstein
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Dr Kirstein Rummery
Lecturer in Health and Community Care
Department of Applied Social Science
4th Floor, Williamson Building
University of Manchester
Oxford Road
Manchester M13 9PL
United Kingdom
Phone: (+44) (0)161 275 4877
Fax: (+44) (0)161 275 4724
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