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Learning Disability and Inclusion Phobia C. F. Goodey (University of Leicester, UK)

Learning Disability and Inclusion Phobia By C. F. Goodey (University of Leicester, UK)

Learning Disability and Inclusion Phobia by C. F. Goodey (University of Leicester, UK)


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This innovative volume explains how concepts of learning disability, intellectual disability and autism first came about, describes their more recent evolution in the formal disciplines of psychology, and shows the direct relevance of this historical knowledge to present and future policy, practice and research.

Learning Disability and Inclusion Phobia Summary

Learning Disability and Inclusion Phobia: Past, Present, Future by C. F. Goodey (University of Leicester, UK)

The social position of learning disabled people has shifted rapidly over the last 20 years, from long-stay institutions, first into community homes and day centres, and now to a currently emerging goal of ordinary lives for individuals using person-centred support and personal budgets. These approaches promise to replace a century and a half of scientific pathological models based on expert assessment, and of the accompanying segregated social administration which determined how and where people led their lives, and who they were.

This innovative volume explains how concepts of learning disability, intellectual disability and autism first came about, describes their more recent evolution in the formal disciplines of psychology, and shows the direct relevance of this historical knowledge to present and future policy, practice and research. Goodey argues that learning disability is not a historically stable category and different people are considered learning disabled as it changes over time. Using psychological and anthropological theory, he identifies the deeper lying pathology as inclusion phobia, in which the tendency of human societies to establish an in-group and to assign out-groups reaches an extreme point. Thus the disability we call intellectual is a concept essential only to an era in which to be human is essentially to be deemed intelligent, autonomous and capable of rational choice.

Interweaving the author's historical scholarship with his practice-based experience in the field, Learning Disability and Inclusion Phobia challenges myths about the past as well as about present-day concepts, exposing both the historical continuities and the radical discontinuities in thinking about learning disability.

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Layers of ancient historical, psychological, subconscious and many other deeply held assumptions, confusions and phobias are meticulously uncovered. This erudite study shows how successive prejudices against various disadvantaged groups have come to be targeted against people with learning disabilities, and how the problems lie primarily in the phobias.

Priscilla Alderson PhD, Professor Emerita of Childhood Studies,
UCL Institute of Education, London

About C. F. Goodey (University of Leicester, UK)

C. F. Goodey is Honorary Fellow at the Centre for Medical Humanities, University of Leicester, having previously held teaching and research posts elsewhere in the UK at Ruskin College, the Open University and University College London Institute of Education. He is also an independent consultant on learning disability services for local government and national organizations. He is the author of A History of Intelligence and 'Intellectual Disability': The Shaping of Psychology in Early Modern Europe.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. Exclusion 3. Intelligence 4. Difference 5. Causes 6. Development 7. Assessment 8. The Autism Paradigm 9. Autism in Context 10. Conclusion

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NLS9780815355212
9780815355212
0815355211
Learning Disability and Inclusion Phobia: Past, Present, Future by C. F. Goodey (University of Leicester, UK)
New
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Inc
2017-12-21
196
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