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The Palgrave Handbook of Disabled Children´s Childhood Studies
Katherine Runswick-Cole (Ed.)
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Description for The Palgrave Handbook of Disabled Children´s Childhood Studies
Hardback. Editor(s): Runswick-Cole, Katherine; Curran, Tillie; Liddiard, Kirsty. Num Pages: 32 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFFG; JFSP1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155. .
Disabled children's lives have often been discussed through medical concepts of disability rather than concepts of childhood. Western understandings of childhood have defined disabled children against child development `norms' and have provided the rationale for segregated or `special' welfare and education provision. In contrast, disabled children's childhood studies begins with the view that studies of children's impairment are not studies of their childhoods. Disabled children's childhood studies demands ethical research practices that position disabled children and young people at the centre of the inquiry outside of the shadow of perceived `norms'. The Palgrave Handbook ... Read more
Disabled children's lives have often been discussed through medical concepts of disability rather than concepts of childhood. Western understandings of childhood have defined disabled children against child development `norms' and have provided the rationale for segregated or `special' welfare and education provision. In contrast, disabled children's childhood studies begins with the view that studies of children's impairment are not studies of their childhoods. Disabled children's childhood studies demands ethical research practices that position disabled children and young people at the centre of the inquiry outside of the shadow of perceived `norms'. The Palgrave Handbook ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
661
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137544452
SKU
V9781137544452
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Ref
99-15
About Katherine Runswick-Cole (Ed.)
Katherine Runswick-Cole is Professor of Critical Disability Studies and Psychology , Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. Tillie Curran is Senior Lecturer in Social Work, University of the West of England, UK. Kirsty Liddiard is Research Associate in the School of Education, University of Sheffield, UK.
Reviews for The Palgrave Handbook of Disabled Children´s Childhood Studies
Valuable and vibrant personal perspectives are presented alongside robust academic engagements spanning empirical and theoretical research. ... This book would be appealing to researchers, students, and practitioners within disabled children's childhood studies, disability studies and childhood studies as well as those working in health and social care. (Amanda Ptolomey, Disability & Society, May, 2018)