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Constructions of disability: researching the interface between disabled and non-disabled people
- Author:
- TREGASKIS Claire
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 164p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
The book discusses the meanings of 'inclusion' through an exploration of the interactions between non-disabled and disabled people at a community leisure center. In exploring the nature of this interface, the book takes a very different approach of that of existing texts, which have tended to concentrate solely on disabled people's experiences of exclusion. The author, herself disabled, looks at oppressive practice towards women and people from minority ethnic groups, drawing parallels between their experiences.
Applying the social model in practice: some lessons from countryside recreation
- Author:
- TREGASKIS Claire
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 19(6), October 2004, pp.601-611.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This paper draws on the researcher's experiences as a countryside access advisor in exploring some of the ways that social model ideas can influence the development of organizational policy and practice in mainstream settings. It argues that, in seeking to influence the development of more inclusive policies and practices, disability studies needs to look for new ways of engaging with diverse audiences of practitioners who are used to operating within an individual model of disability, and who may therefore see no immediate organizational advantages to adopting social model principles in their work. This evolutionary process demands in particular that we work constantly towards finding new, more accessible, ways of explaining social model ideas to mainstream audiences. Thus, in a social climate that continues to tolerate disabled people's oppression, disability studies has a key role to play in demonstrating to theorists, policy-makers and practitioners why and how social model ideas can support the move towards inclusion.