Children with mind–body differences: performing disability in primary school classrooms

Holt, Louise

doi:10.1080/14733280410001720520

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“…Also, critical childhood studies are often concerned with improving childhoods (Mayall 2000;Prout, 2003;Rayner 2003;Holt 2004). By contrast, de Certeau's approach to the social order is useful when the research interest is in understanding childhood and children's politics on their own terms.…”

Section: Extra-policy Politicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Disability, gender and race are commonly used as viewpoints through which researchers bring out the diversity and contradictions related to childhood (e.g. Aitken 2000; Skelton and Valentine 2003;Holt 2004;Robson 2004;Swanson 2007). Geographers have introduced various places and spatialities in which childhood can be critically examined.…”

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confidence: 99%

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The body as a battlefield: approaching children's politics

Kallio

2008

Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography

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This article discusses the active role of children in everyday politics. Distinct from empowerment, it is suggested that children can be political on their own terms. The article focuses on revealing the social production of childhood, which takes place in the confrontation between child policy and children's own politics. Children's bodies are found to be both the main focus of policy practices and a central avenue of children's own agency. Hence, children are understood to be not only objects of policy, but also embodied political subjects. Using the example of Finnish child evacuees’ experiences during the Second World War, it is shown that, despite their positions in policy fields, children do act as political selves. Using the ideas of Michel de Certeau and Carl Schmitt, it is argued that there is an autonomous politics to children which can be recognized as a significant means of coping in their everyday lives. On these grounds, the article sets out to use Pierre Bourdieu's concept of political struggle in considering childhood spatialities in more detail. Overall, children's politics are understood as a wider geographical concept which requires further examination.

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Section: Extra-policy Politicsmentioning

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Section: Extra-policy Politicsmentioning

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The body as a battlefield: approaching children's politics

Kallio

2008

Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography

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“…between social/medical models of disability; between mind/body; between physical/social barriers -which are often taken-for-granted in understandings of disability. Holt (2004) argues that these separations have constituted a problematic tendency to overlook intersections between corporeal-mind-bodies and social-material-landscapes. She uses the term 'embodied social capital' as a focal lens to investigate such intersections.…”

Section: Children's Outdoor/natural Play: Outcomes and Ableismsmentioning

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“…However, it is instructive to note that parents'/carers' accounts typically described multiple forms of barrier together, via quickfire narrative combinations evoking the specific, complex, co-occurring, coconstitutive features (see Holt, 2003Holt, , 2004Holt, , 2010) of the two sites. "There's so much rubbish and dog mess everywhere and the environment isn't very safe.…”

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“…They may also have difficulties in mobility and coordination, communication and perception and…acquisition of self-help skills" (DfES, 2003, p.3-4). In practice, these contested labels encompass a wide range of intellectual, social or adaptive 'dysfunctions' (Holland, 2011, p.1) -or mind-bodyemotional differences (Holt, 2004) -constituted by diverse genetic factors, illnesses or brain injuries, which commonly co-occur with mobility difficulties, sensory impairments, autistic spectrum conditions, communicative, emotional and behavioural difficulties, and/or chronic, complex often lifelimiting medical needs. The decision to engage with children and parents/carers via these schools and playschemes was by no means an uncritical endorsement of the universalising labelling of 'learning difficulties', so much as a pragmatic strategy to engage with local families of children with a widerange of complex, multiple disabling conditions.…”

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Disabilities, urban natures and children’s outdoor play

Horton

2016

Social & Cultural Geography

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‘No sign language if you want to get him talking’: power, transgression/resistance, and discourses of d/Deafness in the Republic of Ireland

Mathews

2011

Population Space and Place

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This paper will discuss how, in spite of calls from the Deaf Community for a socio‐cultural model of Deafness to be implemented, a hegemonic medical discourse of deafness is still evident in the health and education systems serving d/Deaf children in the Republic of Ireland. This hegemony is persisting through the social authority of medicine, the exclusion of Deaf professionals from the medical and educational arenas, and the vulnerability of hearing parents as they encounter professional medical services. By examining the evolution of the medical and social models of d/Deafness, focusing in particular on the non‐use and use of Sign Language as signifiers of the medical and social models respectively, this paper situates the current state of deaf education in Ireland in the context of complex historical processes and relative concepts of power. While there are examples of transgression/resistance to the system, it will be argued that the temporal and spatial limitations on these acts obstruct them from challenging the system overall. This has been further compounded by the changing spatial nature of this resistance, as more and more d/Deaf children make their way through mainstream education. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Children with mind–body differences: performing disability in primary school classrooms

Cited by 94 publications

References 30 publications

The body as a battlefield: approaching children's politics

The body as a battlefield: approaching children's politics

Disabilities, urban natures and children’s outdoor play

‘No sign language if you want to get him talking’: power, transgression/resistance, and discourses of d/Deafness in the Republic of Ireland

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