Hi Lizzie
I have been involved in a qualitative research project looking at inclusive
teaching and learning practice at University level. We hope to submit this
to the International Journal of Inclusive Education.
We used participants from the School of Education and the assumption was
used that these people were working in the field of inclusion, or were
students of Education studies with an interest in inclusion and/or
experience of disability. I think that in this case it was better for us to
focus on transparency, as trust and rapport was part of the process of focus
groups to enlist areas where inclusion was working well.
I will keep the list informed of where we end up.
Cheers, all the best!
Alexandra Smith, BA Hons (Education)
Research Student
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I'm currently working on a questionnaire to look at attitudes
>> of staff in a UK University to disabled students. While some
>> of the questions will be around knowledge, awareness of
>> accessibility requirements and personal knowledge/experience
>> of disability issues, I am also looking for attitudinal
>> questions. Education questions would be useful, but they
>> don't have to be specifically about teaching and learning.
>>
>> I am hoping to adapt questions from the British Social
>> Attitudes survey from
>> 2005 (which had a special section on attitudes to disabled
>> people). Is there any other source material I should be
>> looking at, or other surveys? Material like the BSA survey
>> is particularly useful as there are figures available to
>> which responses from my participants could be compared.
>>
>> Has anyone else previously undertaken similar surveys and
>> therefore have attitudinal questions which they would be
>> happy to see re-used? I'd be happy to incorporate either
>> individual questions, or to consider re-using an attitudinal
>> tool someone may have developed which would benefit from an
>> additional trial.
>>
>> Any questions used would of course be credited to the
>> originator, and their work referenced accordingly, in any
>> publications or conference materials and the website for the project.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Lizzie Walker
>> Research Assistant (Enhancing Transitions for Disabled
>> Students), University of Huddersfield - website at:
>> http://www.hud.ac.uk/tqef/1d.html [log in to unmask]
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> Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:36:47 +0100
> From: Larry Arnold <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Neurodiversity, neurological disability and the public
> sector: notes on the autism spectrum
>
> Well what makes you think I do not deal with fatigue and pain? maybe not
> identical to you, I cannot
> know and neither can you, the danger is here of straw man arguments and
> justifying oneself by
> invoking the old heirarchy of disabilities.
>
> It does come down to attributional style, and two people can be dealing
> with exactly the same
> situation in a different way cognitively, that does not mean that one of
> them has any less of the
> underlying difference which gives rise to it than the other and to argue
> in that way actually
> dismissed the experiences and reality of both sides.
>
> All I can say from a common sense perspective is that it is like the
> weather, we are stuck with it
> and there is not a lot to be done. One can put on a raincoat or put up an
> umbrella, but "the rain it
> raineth every day"
>
> Larry
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>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Margo Milne
>> Sent: 10 August 2008 13:04
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: Neurodiversity, neurological disability and the
>> public sector: notes on the autism spectrum
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>>
>> Well, when you come up with a philosophical construct that
>> deals adequately with the "common sense notions" of pain and
>> fatigue that many of us have to deal with every day, let me
>> know. Until then, I'll continue to argue that the social
>> model, as it currently stands, is inadequate for describing
>> the experience of many disabled people, and that the personal
>> effects of impairments must be considered as part of the
>> causes of disability.
>>
>> Margo
>>
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