Disability theorising and real-world educational practice
A framework for understanding
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12312567 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alison Gable (The University of Queensland, corresponding author), Alison S Gable |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 86-100 |
| Publication date | 2013-04-12 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Disability & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0968-7599 • E-ISSN: 1360-0508 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09687599.2013.776485 |
| OpenAlex | W2019353925 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 48 |
This paper is concerned with the contradictions and tensions in disability theory that have generated an uncertain professional knowledge base in relation to the education of students with disabilities. This tension has produced concern regarding the enculturation of teachers into reductionist understandings of disability that limit the development of inclusive educational environments. A critical realist lens is employed to better understand the boundaries and contributions of three disability models and their connections to education practice. This perspective asserts that the models are social constructions of a real phenomenon requiring critical reflection on their adequacy for explaining and informing real-world practices. It draws upon the work of Bhaskar and Danermark to present a framework for positioning disability theory in a manner that may prove a useful theoretical guide for practitioners
Critical reflection · Disability studies · Enculturation · Epistemology · Pedagogy · Perspective (graphical · Phenomenon · Reductionism · Social model of disability · Sociology · Computer Science · Disability Education and Employment · Disability Rights and Representation · Healthcare innovation and challenges · Psychology
Realizations & re-mediations
Restorative practice and young people with special educational needs and disabilities
Inclusive Higher Education in Spain
Socio-material practices in classrooms that lead to the social participation or social isolation of disabled pupils
Evidence-based practice and intellectual disabilities and Psychological therapies for adults with intellectual disabilities
It’s not my problem’
Transition planning for d/Deaf young people from mainstream schools
Barriers to inclusive education in Greece, Spain and Lithuania
Disability Studies
Who Benefits From Special Education?
Disability Rights and Wrongs
'Inclusion in Practice'
Using Ideology
Social policy and disability
Social Policy and Disability
The Possibility of Naturalism
Imagologies
Metatheory, Interdisciplinarity and Disability Research
Orthodoxy, heresy and the inclusion of American students considered to have emotional/behavioural disorders
Social justice and the changing directions in educational research
Teacher learning for inclusive education
Neutrality as a Moral Standpoint, Conceptual Confusion and the Full Inclusion Debate
Disability Studies and Phenomenology
Constructions and Creations
Defending the Social Model
The Use and Abuse of Models of Disability
The anti‐social model of disability
Dimensions of Oppression
Presage of a paradigm shift? Beyond the social model of disability toward resistance theories of disability
Researching Disability Politics, Or, Some Problems with the Social Model in Practice
Challenging the Authority of the Medical Definition of Disability
Excluding the included
The logic of equity practice in Queensland state education—2010
Special educational needs and competing policy frameworks in England and Scotland
The sociology of disability and the struggle for inclusive education
Disability studies, disabled people and the struggle for inclusion
Imported or Important Theory? Sociological interrogations of disablement and special education
Special Needs and Client Rights
The Cultural Politics of Disability, Education and the Law
Method in Social Science
A Realist Theory of Science
Learning Difficulties', the Social Model of Disability and Impairment
Is anybody there? Critical realism, chronic illness and the disability debate
| Citations per year | 0.67 |
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| Citation span | 2014 - 2025 (12) |
| Highly cited | No |