The identities and social roles of people with intellectual disabilities: Challenging dominant cultural worldviews, values and mythologies
The aim of this research was to explore the social construction of intellectual disability and to increase the power of people with intellectual disabilities in the research process. Informed by a contextualist perspective, this research was conducted within a participatory framework. Causal layered...
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Curtin University
2014
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| description | The aim of this research was to explore the social construction of intellectual disability and to increase the power of people with intellectual disabilities in the research process. Informed by a contextualist perspective, this research was conducted within a participatory framework. Causal layered analysis was used to deconstruct the data revealing a complex dynamic of worldviews and mythologies which served to dehumanise people with intellectual disabilities and blame them for their own fate (victim blaming). |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-7852017-02-20T06:42:39Z The identities and social roles of people with intellectual disabilities: Challenging dominant cultural worldviews, values and mythologies Povee, Kate The aim of this research was to explore the social construction of intellectual disability and to increase the power of people with intellectual disabilities in the research process. Informed by a contextualist perspective, this research was conducted within a participatory framework. Causal layered analysis was used to deconstruct the data revealing a complex dynamic of worldviews and mythologies which served to dehumanise people with intellectual disabilities and blame them for their own fate (victim blaming). 2014 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/785 en Curtin University fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Povee, Kate The identities and social roles of people with intellectual disabilities: Challenging dominant cultural worldviews, values and mythologies |
| title | The identities and social roles of people with intellectual disabilities: Challenging dominant cultural worldviews, values and mythologies |
| title_full | The identities and social roles of people with intellectual disabilities: Challenging dominant cultural worldviews, values and mythologies |
| title_fullStr | The identities and social roles of people with intellectual disabilities: Challenging dominant cultural worldviews, values and mythologies |
| title_full_unstemmed | The identities and social roles of people with intellectual disabilities: Challenging dominant cultural worldviews, values and mythologies |
| title_short | The identities and social roles of people with intellectual disabilities: Challenging dominant cultural worldviews, values and mythologies |
| title_sort | identities and social roles of people with intellectual disabilities: challenging dominant cultural worldviews, values and mythologies |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/785 |