Critical engagement with insider accounts of inclusive schooling

Engaging critically with insider accounts of inclusive schooling, the thesis provides an opportunity to understand the entangled, multiple, and often contradictory discourses that comprise day-to-day experiences of "inclusion" for young people with impairments. The work forming the majority of this thesis is a collection of journal papers.

Interview with Eva Kasim

Eva Kasim is an Indonesian who studied at Deakin University in 1998-1999. She studied on an Australian Development Scholarship and completed a Masters in Disability Studies. Eva has lived with a disease that causes paralysis since she was 13, and since completing her studies she has been working to advocate change in relation to disability issues in Indonesia and abroad. The interview was conducted in English by Dr. Jemma Purdey and Prof. David Lowe, both of Deakin University, on 13 February 2015. This set comprises: an interview recording in two parts, a timed summary, and a photograph.

The subjectivities of ‘included’ students with disabilities in schools

The contextual precept of this paper is to re-theorise inclusive education beyond technical rational solutions to the ‘problem’ of disability. Drawing on Foucauldian and critical disability theories, I make the case for the analysis of inclusive schooling through the lens of students’ ‘included’ subjectivities – notwithstanding the presence of diagnosed special educational needs. I contend that there is a theoretical mismatch between humanist inclusive schooling and the posthumanist position of disability: an epistemic fissure that impedes inclusive development. Through analysis of the voices of students with disabilities from two different schooling contexts in Australia and Spain, I demonstrate how fragmented virtues of normalcy suffused their subjectivities. I conclude the paper with a discussion of the roles that DisHuman disability studies might play in recasting inclusive schooling by troubling normative discourse.

Practising social inclusion

Practising Social Inclusion presents what we know about what works, and why, in promoting social inclusion and practising in a socially inclusive way. Contributing to the growing debates on social inclusion, this book moves beyond discussion of who it is that is socially excluded and the processes of exclusion. It draws on research and reflective practice to answer the vital question of how to actually work towards inclusion and includes five sections looking at different arenas for practice: policy; programme design; service delivery; community life; and research. Relevant to all those working to promote, or researching, human health and wellbeing, this book is especially suitable for practitioners, students and scholars in health promotion, social work, social policy, public health, disability studies, occupational therapy and nursing.

Fish or n3-PUFA intake and body composition: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Obesity is a major public health issue and an important contributor to the global burden of chronic disease and disability. Studies indicate that fish and omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (n3-PUFA) supplements may help prevent cardiovascular and metabolic diseases. However, the effect of fish oil on body composition is still uncertain, so we performed a systematic review of randomized controlled trials and the first meta-analysis on the association between fish or fish oil intake and body composition measures. We found evidence that participants taking fish or fish oil lost 0.59 kg more body weight than controls (95% confidence interval [CI]: -0.96 to -0.21). Treatment groups lost 0.24 kg m(-2) (body mass index) more than controls (-0.40 to -0.08), and 0.49 % more body fat than controls (-0.97 to -0.01). Fish or fish oil reduced waist circumference by 0.81 cm (-1.34 to -0.28) compared with control. There was no difference for fat mass and lean body mass. Further research is needed to confirm or refute our findings and to reveal possible mechanisms by which n3-PUFAs might reduce weight.

The Five Senses in Medieval and Early Modern England

Edited by Annette Kern-Stähler, Beatrix Busse, and Wietse de Boer The essays collected in The Five Senses in Medieval and Early Modern England examine the interrelationships between sense perception and secular and Christian cultures in England from the medieval into the early modern periods. They address canonical texts and writers in the fields of poetry, drama, homiletics, martyrology and early scientific writing, and they espouse methods associated with the fields of corpus linguistics, disability studies, translation studies, art history and archaeology, as well as approaches derived from traditional literary studies. Together, these papers constitute a major contribution to the growing field of sensorial research that will be of interest to historians of perception and cognition as well as to historians with more generalist interests in medieval and early modern England.

Aproximaciones a una crítica posestructuralista de la pedagogía de la diversidad

La ponencia propone problematizar el paradigma de la normalidad implicado en los discursos pedagógicos centrados en el reconocimiento de la diversidad, puestos en circulación a partir de mediados de la década de 1980 en Argentina. Tomamos como punto de partida el surgimiento de los discursos pedagógicos normalizadores en el siglo XIX, donde se determinó y prescribió un tipo de comportamiento y grado de educabilidad natural y esperable. Normal es, siguiendo a Canguilhem, el término por el cual se va a designar el prototipo escolar y el estado de salud orgánica. El desvío o la transgresión a la norma hizo posible producir y clasificar a los sujetos bajo nominaciones de monstruosidad, degeneración, peligrosidad e indocilidad, delimitando a las infancias y juventudes anormales. En este sentido el saber pedagógico se constituyó en relación al saber médico, jurídico y psicológico, como el fundamento central de la escuela moderna. Resulta significativo mencionar que es en este período cuando la escuela comenzará a aplicar tecnologías de modo de definir los destinos del alumnado. Como señala M. Foucault el anormal es un tipo de niño, no un enfermo, es alguien sumergido dentro de la propia infancia normal. Sin embargo, en las últimas décadas del siglo XX, tanto en plano social como en el académico, surgieron miradas e iniciativas que han puesto en cuestión el poder normalizador. Así, tanto el movimiento de personas con discapacidad como, por ejemplo, los estudios e investigaciones realizadas en el marco de los disability studies, han irrumpido en la arena pública, denunciando los discursos y las relaciones de poder que mantienen a grupos e individuos en situación de opresión, desigualdad, invisibilización que los priva de una participación social e interlocución plena. Estas demandas han dado lugar a una re?exión crítica sobre los discursos pedagógicos centrados en la atención a la diversidad que, en términos generales, abordan la relación pedagógica a partir de concepciones como las de tolerancia, aceptación, integración, donde Uno tolera y el Otro es tolerado, el normal se contacta con el anormal que es el diverso, lo cual deja intacto, inconmovible, al paradigma de la normalidad. Esta perspectiva no exige repensar/se ni modificar/se ninguno de sus supuestos en razón de incluir a los otros en sus propias lógicas, a cambio despolitiza las diferencias y borra la desigualdad. Siendo que la génesis del discurso de la pedagogía es normalizador, se hace necesario retomar la pregunta propuesta por Valeria Flores "en tanto la normalidad es un producto de la pedagogía ¿Es posible una pedagogía que trabaje contra sí misma?"

Aproximaciones a una crítica posestructuralista de la pedagogía de la diversidad

La ponencia propone problematizar el paradigma de la normalidad implicado en los discursos pedagógicos centrados en el reconocimiento de la diversidad, puestos en circulación a partir de mediados de la década de 1980 en Argentina. Tomamos como punto de partida el surgimiento de los discursos pedagógicos normalizadores en el siglo XIX, donde se determinó y prescribió un tipo de comportamiento y grado de educabilidad natural y esperable. Normal es, siguiendo a Canguilhem, el término por el cual se va a designar el prototipo escolar y el estado de salud orgánica. El desvío o la transgresión a la norma hizo posible producir y clasificar a los sujetos bajo nominaciones de monstruosidad, degeneración, peligrosidad e indocilidad, delimitando a las infancias y juventudes anormales. En este sentido el saber pedagógico se constituyó en relación al saber médico, jurídico y psicológico, como el fundamento central de la escuela moderna. Resulta significativo mencionar que es en este período cuando la escuela comenzará a aplicar tecnologías de modo de definir los destinos del alumnado. Como señala M. Foucault el anormal es un tipo de niño, no un enfermo, es alguien sumergido dentro de la propia infancia normal. Sin embargo, en las últimas décadas del siglo XX, tanto en plano social como en el académico, surgieron miradas e iniciativas que han puesto en cuestión el poder normalizador. Así, tanto el movimiento de personas con discapacidad como, por ejemplo, los estudios e investigaciones realizadas en el marco de los disability studies, han irrumpido en la arena pública, denunciando los discursos y las relaciones de poder que mantienen a grupos e individuos en situación de opresión, desigualdad, invisibilización que los priva de una participación social e interlocución plena. Estas demandas han dado lugar a una re?exión crítica sobre los discursos pedagógicos centrados en la atención a la diversidad que, en términos generales, abordan la relación pedagógica a partir de concepciones como las de tolerancia, aceptación, integración, donde Uno tolera y el Otro es tolerado, el normal se contacta con el anormal que es el diverso, lo cual deja intacto, inconmovible, al paradigma de la normalidad. Esta perspectiva no exige repensar/se ni modificar/se ninguno de sus supuestos en razón de incluir a los otros en sus propias lógicas, a cambio despolitiza las diferencias y borra la desigualdad. Siendo que la génesis del discurso de la pedagogía es normalizador, se hace necesario retomar la pregunta propuesta por Valeria Flores "en tanto la normalidad es un producto de la pedagogía ¿Es posible una pedagogía que trabaje contra sí misma?"

Looking inside for good practice in Deaf bilingual education: a participatory SWOT analysis

Presentation to the Disability Studies Conference, Lancaster University, September 7-9, 2010.

Sources of audiovisual materials on disabilities /

"May 1995."

A DEFICIÊNCIA FÍSICA NAS REVISTAS VEJA, ÉPOCA E ISTOÉ: um estudo de recepção

A maioria das pesquisas sobre mídia e deficiência estuda de que forma as pessoas com deficiência são representadas pelo jornalismo. As representações encontradas pelos pesquisadores são de assistencialismo, normalização, superação e cidadania. Este estudo procura compreender a percepção das pessoas com deficiência física em relação às revistas de atualidades e descobrir como essas pessoas sentem-se representadas por tais veículos de comunicação. Analisaram-se três revistas de atualidades: Veja, Época e Istoé. Para compor o corpus da pesquisa optou-se por textos referentes à deficiência nas edições de julho a dezembro de 2012, período em que aconteceram os jogos paraolímpicos, e nas datas relacionadas à luta das pessoas com deficiência. Quanto aos procedimentos metodológicos destaca-se, em um primeiro momento, a análise de conteúdo e, em seguida, a análise retórica do discurso de três textos jornalísticos, um de cada revista, de acordo com a representação predominante. Por último analisa-se a recepção, com 16 entrevistados, sendo oito estudantes da Universidade Metodista de São Paulo e oito pacientes da Associação de Paraplégicos de Taubaté (Aparte). A análise revelou que a representação que mais apareceu no período foi a da superação, e que as pessoas que têm deficiência física querem ser representadas de uma forma mais humana e inclusiva. .

Teaching To Trouble: Critical Book Reviews as Pedagogy to Interrogate Education Praxis

How might education professors disrupt traditional curriculum and teaching practices that teach future teachers to label, segregate, and marginalize students with disabilities? The Disability Studies in Education (DSE) approach grounds practice on the perspectives of people with disabilities and challenges practices that isolate and de-humanize individuals. The pedagogy for eliciting critical book reviews using a DSE perspective is described.

Towards a Bourdieusian analysis of the disabled body and practice: embodying negative symbolic capitals and the uneasy experience of hysteresis

Within the last few years, disabled people have become the target of government austerity measures through drastic cuts to welfare justified through the portrayal of benefit claimants as inactive, problem citizens who are wilfully unemployed. For all that is wrong with these cuts, they are one of many aspects of exclusion that disabled people face. Attitudes towards disability are deteriorating (Scope, 2011) and disabled people are devalued and negatively positioned in a myriad of ways, meaning that an understanding of the perceptions and positioning of disability and the power of disabling practices is critical. This thesis will examine how Bourdieu’s theoretical repertoire may be applied to the area of Disability Studies in order to discern how society produces oppressive and exclusionary systems of classification which structures the social position and perceptions of disability. The composite nature of disability and multiple forms of exclusion and inequality associated with it benefits from a multipronged approach which acknowledges personal, embodied and psychological aspects of disability alongside socio-political and cultural conceptualisations. Bourdieu’s approach is one in which the micro and macro aspects of social life are brought together through their meso interplay and provides a thorough analysis of the many aspects of disability.

Dependência e deficiência : um estudo sobre o índice de funcionalidade brasileiro aplicado à aposentadoria (IFBr-A)

Dissertação (mestrado)—Universidade de Brasília, Instituto de Ciências Humanas, Departamento de Serviço Social, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Política Social, 2016.