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Working together for positive outcomes’: The Appropriation of Collaboration, Voice and Choice in SEN policy formation Dr Claire Penketh Date: Wednesday 17th June 2015 Time: 2.15 – 3.45pm Place: Eden 109, Liverpool Hope University, UK Recent policy in Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEN/D) has been formulated through a series of consultative processes apparently designed to arrive at a ‘new approach’ for educational provision. In the development of new policy for SEN/D collaboration, voice and choice are appropriated in order to strengthen the case for change. Appropriation is concerned with: the deliberate act of taking something for one’s own use; the allocation of financial resources; and as an art term that refers to the re-use of existing objects that are presented in a form which is barely changed from their original (Marcel Duchamp’s presentation of a men’s urinal as Fountain in 1915 is one of the most famous examples of the latter). Of particular concern here is the ways in which collaboration, voice, and choice have been appropriated in calls to re-make education policy and practice as something new. Dr Penketh explores the extent to which the appropriation of collaboration, voice, and choice has resulted in the originality and authenticity of something ‘new’ or if the result is a representation of a pre-existing and problematic object. Claire Penketh is Head of the Department of Disability and Education, Principal Lecturer, and a core member of the Centre for Culture and Disability Studies at Liverpool Hope University. She is author of A Clumsy Encounter: Dyspraxia and Drawing (Sense, 2011) and co-editor of Disability, Avoidance, and the Academy: Challenging Resistance (Routledge, 2015). This seminar is part of the CCDS series, The Voice of Disability. The next seminar is to be confirmed. Thanks to Dr Owen Barden, a core member of the CCDS, the seminars are now often filmed. Dr Barden has created a YouTube channel called 'Centre for Culture and Disability Studies' and uploaded the seminar films we have so far. People can now subscribe to this channel if they access one of our videos. For further information please contact: Dr David Bolt