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Thinking about Schooling through Dis/Ability

A DisHuman Approach

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Disability Studies

Part of the book series: Innovations and Controversies ((ICIE))

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In this chapter, we develop and draw on an emerging approach – which we entitle the DisHuman – to explore how disabled children’s lives are enabled and limited by their construction as simultaneously both ‘different from’ and ‘the same as’ other children. One institutional setting in which the child becomes known in their relationship with the dis/ability complex is the school.

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  1. The School of Education, The University of Sheffield, England

    Dan Goodley

  2. The Research Institute for Health and Social Change, Manchester Metropolitan University, England

    Katherine Runswick-Cole

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  1. The Victoria Institute, Victoria University, Australia

    Tim Corcoran

  2. The Victoria Institute, Victoria University, Australia

    Julie White

  3. Deakin University, Australia

    Ben Whitburn

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Goodley, D., Runswick-Cole, K. (2015). Thinking about Schooling through Dis/Ability. In: Corcoran, T., White, J., Whitburn, B. (eds) Disability Studies. Innovations and Controversies. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-199-1_16

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