Disability Studies as Ethnographic Research and Text: Research strategies and roles for promoting social change?

Davis, John M.

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Cited by 70 publications

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“…Use has been made of qualitative techniques such as biography and the creation of life stories (for example Middleton & Hewitt, 2000), autobiography (Atkinson & Walmsley, 1999) and observation (Davis, 2000). These can be used to add up to a 'bricolage' (Denzin & Lincoln, 2000), a 'mirror ball' or 'kaleidoscope effect ' (Edwards et al, 2006), producing a 'multi-disciplinary' whole (Marks, 1999).…”

Section: Views On Adolescence As 'Process' Not Transformationmentioning

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Developing practice-near social work research to explore the emotional worlds of severely learning disabled adolescents in ‘transition’ and their families

Hingley‐Jones¹

2009

Journal of Social Work Practice

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This paper aims to make a contribution to the development of practice-near research through discussion of a project which explores the experiences of a socially marginalized group -young people with severe learning disabilities. Psychoanalytically informed infant observation is adapted as a research method for observing these young people in the family home. The paper discusses the rationale for the development and adaption of the research method in the process of observing. The discussion focuses on the key themes of understanding the quality of developing subjectivity and the ways that young people, adults and siblings coped with the often stressful aspects in the home. The article concludes with the implications for policy and practice and proposes that methodologies such as this are needed to capture the complexity of the lives and experiences of these service users and their families.

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Section: Views On Adolescence As 'Process' Not Transformationmentioning

confidence: 97%

Developing practice-near social work research to explore the emotional worlds of severely learning disabled adolescents in ‘transition’ and their families

Hingley‐Jones¹

2009

Journal of Social Work Practice

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“…In describing research with Access-ability in Lothian, John Davis describes how 'disabled children are active agents capable of stimulating processes of change and the researcher and other adults are helpful, but discrete allies' (Davis, 2000). Similarly and crucial to the success of Ask Us!, the young researchers themselves took charge of the medium and the message.…”

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Participation—for a change: Disabled young people lead the way

Badham¹

2004

Children & Society

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Virtually every Government programme for children and every Government Department in the UK is expected to involve children and young people in its policy development and service delivery (Children and Young People's Unit, 2001). It is the new orthodoxy. Yet, hard questions are often avoided when reciting the mantra of participation. Why bother? What has changed as a result? This paper first seeks to explore the constraints and limitations of this drive in public policy in England. Secondly, by looking at one specific example, it considers elements of practice to enable participation to be effective as a catalyst for change. Third, it proposes a framework that sets out an agenda for social inclusion that is itself influenced by children and young people and not reliant on the changing and often clashing fashions in Government.

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“…It is asserted by Stone and Priestley (1996, p. 700) that for non-disabled researchers, 'the inherent power relationship between researcher and researched is accentuated by the unequal power relationship which exists between disabled people and non-disabled people in the wider world'. Those working towards emancipatory disability research advocate a reversal of the social relations of research production where 'disabled people and their organisations are at the apex of the research hierarchy' (Stone and Priestley, 1996, p. 704) with research participants positioned as disabled experts and ourselves as novice researchers (Davis, 2000).…”

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confidence: 99%

Reflecting on disability research in sport and leisure settings

Macbeth

2010

Leisure Studies

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Disability Studies as Ethnographic Research and Text: Research strategies and roles for promoting social change?

Cited by 70 publications

References 26 publications

Developing practice-near social work research to explore the emotional worlds of severely learning disabled adolescents in ‘transition’ and their families

Developing practice-near social work research to explore the emotional worlds of severely learning disabled adolescents in ‘transition’ and their families

Participation—for a change: Disabled young people lead the way

Reflecting on disability research in sport and leisure settings

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