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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.
List of contents
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 Research. 9. Who Uses it and How? 10. What Has Been Achieved. Part 3. Beyond Rhetoric to New Realities. 11. Beyond Rhetoric... 12. ...To New Realities. 13. Conclusion: Why Do It? References. Subject Index. Author Index.
About the author
Jan Walmsley is a historian of intellectual disability and Visiting Chair in History of Learning Disability at The Open University. In 1994 she founded the Social History of Learning Disability Research Group at The Open University.
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.
