Re - Search in Disability Communities

Question 1

Issues researchers working in disabled communities consider?

Participatory action research

Answer 1

• Must be done with people, not on or for
• emphasis on participation and action
  participation involves
  -community identifying needs
  research design with community
  action involves
• results having direct benefit on community
• action or creation to change something for community

Question 2

Potential challenges to participatory action research (PAR)

Answer 2

• little interest in analysis/ academic process of writing up results
• communities are not homogenous ( people experiencing disability may not share the same culture and definitely don’t come from the same culture
• Takes a long time

Question 3

Transformation paradigm

Answer 3

• by donna Mertens
• people working together for social and personal transformation
• emphasized human rights and social justice
• identifies relavent dimensions of diversity and the accompanying discrimination and oppression.

Question 4

Internalized ableism

Answer 4

practice where disabled people internalize the ideas and prejudices of society that see disability as other, as something undesirable, as tragic and something to be shunned if not pitied. in turn results in disabled person loathing themselves.

Question 5

Inclusive group exercise rule

Answer 5

80% rule: 80% of class is working at a level that is good for them .

Question 6

Integrated Dance

Answer 6

• also called inclusive dance, disability dance
• usually part of disability culture movement. recognizes and celebrates experiences of disability through artistic means, advocates for a social model of understanding

Question 7

Ideal dance bodies

Answer 7

ballet: thin, hyper athletic, shorter women taller men, clearly gendered

Contemporary: thin, hyper athletic, less gendered, women can be taller and muscular

Question 8

Principalism

4 principles

Answer 8

• non maleficence (do no harm)
• beneficence (help or do good onto others)
• Autonomy (making independent informed decisions)
• Justice

Principalism: sometimes criticized for being distant from every day ethical issues and relationships

Question 9

Ethics of care

Answer 9

comes from nursing

care and interdependence are the ultimate goals of practitioners

Question 10

Two conditions for caring

Answer 10

1. Engrossment: giving full attention to person who is the recipient of the care
2. displacement: where care giver waives or sets aside personal motivations to perform act of caring.`

Question 11

Dignity (4)

Nordenfelt

Answer 11

• Dignity as merit ( can be gained through deeds and accomplishments)
• dignity as moral stature (to respect moral law)
• dignity of identity (how they are looked upon by others)
• Menschenwürde (Dignity we have because we are humans) (Self awareness and autonomy, so super ableist)

Question 12

Relational Ethics

Answer 12

• value building relationship and allow relationships and context to inform our ethics
• interdependence

Question 13

3 elements of Relational Ethics

Answer 13

• mutual respect
• relationally
• trust and receptivity