Inclusive research with people with learning disabilities : past, present, and futures / Jan Walmsley and Kelley Johnson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Walmsley, Jan.

Contributor:

Johnson, Kelley, 1947-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Learning disabilities--Research--Methodology.

Learning disabilities.

Participant observation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (258 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, PA ; London : J. Kingsley Publishers, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The authors discuss participative approaches to research and provide an up-to-date account of inclusive practice with individuals with learning disabilities. Drawing on evidence from two major studies, they explain how lessons learnt from inclusive research in the learning disability field are applicable to others working with marginalized groups.

Contents:

Inclusive Research with People with Learning Disabilities; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Reputable? Helpful?...and Inclusive?; Part 1 Describing the Past; 1 Of Shoes and Ships and Sealing Wax and... Inclusive Research: Or Where Did It All Start?; 2 Normalizing, Emancipating and Making a Stand; 3 Inclusive Research in Learning Disability: Beginnings; 4 Knowing the Elephant; Part 2 Exploring the Research Process; 5 Nothing About Us Without Us Good Times Bad Times; 6 Living Safer Sexual Lives: Making Research Work; 7 What Matters to People with Learning Disabilities?

8 Managing Inclusive Research9 Who Uses it and How?; 10 What Has Been Achieved?; Part 3 Beyond Rhetoric to New Realities; 11 Beyond Rhetoric...; 12 ...To New Realities; Conclusion: Why Do It?; References; Subject Index; Author Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-90458-6

1-4175-0130-8

1-84642-401-1

OCLC:

567905559