Here heare hear hoar hair, or whatever way you want to spell it.
(No, I am not dyslexic, just a lousy speller)
rgds John
----- Original Message -----
From: Gill Dixon <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>; <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, October 29, 1999 3:34 AM
Subject: RE: ABs in disability studies
> It should also be noted that as an able bodied person who is studying
> disability studies, my passion stemmed from the disability of one of my
> children. Although I have heard/read the past comments relating to parents
> in disability issues, we are at times in an excellent position to promote
> positive models/ideas relating to disability, and surely it is better than
> we are well informed in order to do so.
> I felt it was appropriate to look at some of the theories relating to
> disability and to attempt to understand the construction of disability,
both
> to learn and to address my own attitudes.
>
> Parents can be an excellent (or otherwise) springing board for discussion
> and can challenge views and relate information that might be considered at
> least 'reasonable' from the disabled person's point of view. Indeed, one
of
> the issues I am trying to raise in my interest in education is how little
we
> hear the voices of the children who are labelled as having special
> educational needs. Who is asking them? Very often...no one.
>
> I percieve an enormous prejudice from pwd's towards people like me.
> Discrimination from an angle I had not considered (naively).
>
> Gill.
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [log in to unmask]
> > [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Dan
> > Goodley
> > Sent: 28 October 1999 09:40
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: ABs in disability studies; ableist bias in textbooks (long,
> >
> >
> > Hmmm...
> >
> > Non-disabled people in disability studies. It is interesting to view
> > the role of men in feminist studies as a useful parallel / though
> > different context. There are not many critical male researchers that
> > I know who would admit to being 'bearded feminists' - indeed to do
> > so, would in some ways fail to recognise 'ontological priviledge' of
> > women (see Stanley and Wise, 1993). However, I have met many
> > non-disabled people who would say that they are 'proponents of the
> > social model'. Does this challenge the ontological priviledge of
> > disabled people and reproduce notions of 'non-disabled as
> > expert' (which we know is nonsense, but is a core component of the
> > surveillance by professionals in the lives of disabled people) or is
> > this problematically fitting with 'interdependence' and individual
> > and collective responsibility of all social actors (as argued for by
> > Oliver, Corker, etc)?
> >
> > Just a thought ....
> >
> >
> > Dan
> >
> >
> >
> > Dan Goodley
> > Bolton Institute
> > Department of Psychology
> > Deane Campus
> > Bolton BL3 5AB
> > Tel : 01204 903676
> >
> > "Revolution is necessary ... the class which
> > overthrows the ruling class can rid itself of
> > the accumulated rubbish of the past and become
> > capable of reconstructing society". (Marx 1845)
> >
>
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