Disabled children’s childhood studies and leadership as experts by experience: learning activism in health and social care education

Curran, Tillie, Sayers, Ruth and Percy-Smith, Barry (2017) Disabled children’s childhood studies and leadership as experts by experience: learning activism in health and social care education. In: The Palgrave Handbook of Disabled Children's Childhood Studies. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9781137544452

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Abstract

People involved in disabled children’s childhood studies, and others who contribute their experience of using health and social care services, strongly object to being seen by professionals as ‘the problem’. In contrast Experts by Experience involved in a leadership project used strategies of mutual support towards change. We see learning activism as core to a professional practice that is also about change and explore critical pedagogy for students to directly experience such collaborative ways of working. The chapter begins and ends with reflections by the authors on sharing their personal and political concerns as part of collaborative learning encouraged by the opportunities to join and support the voices of disabled children and their families.

Item Type:	Book Chapter
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
Schools:	School of Human and Health Sciences School of Human and Health Sciences > Centre for Applied Childhood, Youth and Family Research
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Depositing User:	Sharon Beastall
Date Deposited:	25 Jan 2017 09:39
Last Modified:	27 Mar 2018 08:16
URI:	http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/31031

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