Disabled children's childhood studies : critical approaches in a global context / edited by Tillie Curran, University of the West England, UK, and Katherine Runswick-Cole, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Curran, Tillie, 1956- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children with disabilities--Social conditions.

Children with disabilities.

Children with disabilities--Care.

Physical Description:

xvi, 204 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Summary:

This collection centres on the experiences of disabled children and young people and aims to develop theories about their childhoods. The powerful first-hand accounts by disabled children, family members and reflections by disabled adults are aimed to inspire the reader to think and, perhaps, act in positive and productive ways about all children's lives. The authors oppose the historical global imposition of problematic views of disability and childhood and offer open discussion of responsive and ethical research approaches. New ways of thinking about disabled children's childhoods in a global context demand poverty reduction and approaches that support families and communities to recognize the contributions disabled children make. Book jacket.

Contents:

Preface / Tillie Curran and Katherine Runswick-Cole

Voices for creative theory, policy and practice

My story : Stevie and Cath / Colin and Billie Tyrie

My sister stevie / Billie Tyrie

Simply children / Frejya Haraldsdóttir

Thinking outside y/our problem box : transitions? / Jo Skitteral

Mug or a teacup and saucer / Linda Derbyshire

Contemporary inquiries

Doing real world research with disabled children : issues and challenges / David Abbott

Remembering school in different historical worlds : changing patterns of education in the lives of disabled children and young people / Sonali Shah

Disability and childhood in spaces of poverty : critical perspectives on Guatemala / Shaun Grech

"Wearing it all with a smile" : psycho-emotional disablism in the lives of parents of disabled children / Katherine Runswick-Cole

Contemporary theories

Disabled children's childhood studies : alternative relations and forms of authority / Tillie Curran

"The spectre of the norm" : historicising the notion of the "normal child" / Harriet Cooper

Considerations for an african childhood disability studies / Tsitsi Chataika and Judy Mckenzie

The disavowal of uncanny disabled children : why non-disabled people are so messed up around childhood disability / Dan Goodley and Rebecca Lawthom

Researching youth in neoliberal times : the importance of including disability / Jenny Slater

Concluding thoughts / Katherine Runswick-Cole and Tillie Curran.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137008213

1137008210

OCLC:

860384196