The Palgrave Handbook of Disabled Children’s Childhood Studies
Editors: Runswick-Cole, Katherine, Curran, Tillie, Liddiard, Kirsty (Eds.)
- Further develops disabled children’s childhood studies as a distinct conceptual domain of study
- Moves beyond discussion of impairment, inequality and abuse to enable disabled children to step out from under shadows of the normative expectations that have clouded their lives
- Seeks to position the voice and experiences of disabled children at the centre of the inquiry
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- About this book
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Disabled children’s lives have often been discussed through medical concepts of disability rather than concepts of childhood. Western understandings of childhood have defined disabled children against child development ‘norms’ and have provided the rationale for segregated or ‘special’ welfare and education provision. In contrast, disabled children’s childhood studies begins with the view that studies of children’s impairment are not studies of their childhoods. Disabled children’s childhood studies demands ethical research practices that position disabled children and young people at the centre of the inquiry outside of the shadow of perceived ‘norms’.
The Palgrave Handbook of Disabled Children’s Childhood Studies will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines, as well as practitioners in health, education, social work and youth work.
- About the authors
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Katherine Runswick-Cole is Professor of Critical Disability Studies and Psychology , Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.
Tillie Curran is Senior Lecturer in Social Work, University of the West of England, UK.
Kirsty Liddiard is Research Associate in the School of Education, University of Sheffield, UK.
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“Valuable and vibrant personal perspectives are presented alongside robust academic engagements spanning empirical and theoretical research. … This book would be appealing to researchers, students, and practitioners within disabled children’s childhood studies, disability studies and childhood studies as well as those working in health and social care.” (Amanda Ptolomey, Disability & Society, May, 2018)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- The Palgrave Handbook of Disabled Children’s Childhood Studies
- Editors
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- Katherine Runswick-Cole
- Tillie Curran
- Kirsty Liddiard
- Copyright
- 2018
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-137-54446-9
- DOI
- 10.1057/978-1-137-54446-9
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-137-54445-2
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XXIV, 661
- Number of Illustrations and Tables
- 8 b/w illustrations, 26 illustrations in colour
- Topics
