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Journal article
Disability Justice: The Challenges of Inclusion in Everyday Life
International journal of disability, development, and education
2025
Abstract
This paper presents the challenges faced by Taylor (pseudonym), a young child, with a disability navigating everyday life. These challenges reflect issues that many people with disabilities face where Diversity, Inclusion and Equity are key to disability justice. Highlighting places and spaces of inclusion and exclusion in both formal and non-formal settings, we describe sites where Taylor is both constrained and enabled and consider what that might mean. Informed by the first author’s carer position, eight vignettes provide both context and consideration, making these challenges visible and hence provocations for change. These accounts are considered in relation to key concepts of the social model of disability within a critical disability framework. This exploration highlights how society’s perceptions are largely bound by a bio-medical view of disability that promotes deficit views. By way of contrast, and beyond an impoverished framing, a social model of disability sees Taylor as a vibrant, intelligent young person seeking to live a life rich with meaning and value. What the research reveals is that learning and change are possible in both formal and non-formal settings where an enhanced understanding of places and spaces for engagement and participation means that society becomes more equitable and just.
Details
- Title
- Disability Justice: The Challenges of Inclusion in Everyday Life
- Authors/Creators
- Julie- Mary Carmel - Murdoch UniversitySian Chapman - Murdoch University, School of EducationPeter Wright - Murdoch University, School of Education
- Publication Details
- International journal of disability, development, and education
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
- Number of pages
- 14
- Identifiers
- 991005737344607891
- Copyright
- © 2025 The Author(s).
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Murdoch University
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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- Citation topics
- 6 Social Sciences
- 6.146 Anthropology
- 6.146.1622 Autoethnography
- Web Of Science research areas
- Education, Special
- Rehabilitation
- ESI research areas
- Social Sciences, general