Gambling for capital: learning disability, inclusive research and collaborative life histories.

The aim of this paper is to reflect on research collaboration between a research participant with learning disability and a nondisabled doctoral student. In the paper we explore the inclusiveness of our research partnership and how collaborative life histories can be empowering both for participants...

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Publicado en:British Journal of Learning Disabilities Vol. 36; no. 4; pp. 263 - 271
Autores principales: Björnsdóttir K, Svensdóttir AS
Formato: Journal Article
Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Dec2008
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          Björnsdóttir K
          Svensdóttir AS
        affil: Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Iceland, Sturlugata, 101 Reykjavík, Iceland; krb4@hi.is
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          Collaboration
          Life Histories
          Persons with Intellectual Disabilities
          Researcher-Subject Relations
          Colleges and Universities Iceland
          Empowerment
          Iceland
          Research Question
          Self-Advocacy
          Social Behavior
          Social Capital
          Students, Graduate
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      ab: The aim of this paper is to reflect on research collaboration between a research participant with learning disability and a nondisabled doctoral student. In the paper we explore the inclusiveness of our research partnership and how collaborative life histories can be empowering both for participants and researchers. We suggest that it is possible to make any kind of research inclusive, although doctoral projects can perhaps not be fully inclusive because of academic requirements. We argue that people with learning disabilities should have the opportunity to be involved in research and that collaborative writing between nondisabled researchers and people with learning disabilities is no less valuable than other disability research and should be taken seriously by policy makers and academia. A second aim of the paper is to reflect on our position, as a nondisabled researcher and a researcher with learning disabilities, in the fieldof disability studies. We state that as researchers we have little power in the field of disability studies because researchers with learning disabilities are not taken seriously and nondisabled researchers tend to be met with scepticism.
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