Radio Blindness: Interdisciplinarity, Ocularnormativity, and Young People’s Preparation for Academia

Bolt, David (2019) Radio Blindness: Interdisciplinarity, Ocularnormativity, and Young People’s Preparation for Academia. Journal of Further and Higher Education.. ISSN 0309-877X

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Abstract

True to the field of Cultural Disability Studies in Education (CDSE), this project adopts an explicitly interdisciplinary approach in order to explore representations of disability and the related social attitudes and experiences. Disability studies and radio studies are brought together to predicate and inform the analysis of a sample of education-centred discussions featured in In Touch, a long-running BBC Radio 4 programme made for, and by, people who have visual impairments. Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) is applied to the sub-themes of mainstream-special schooling and social interaction, which are organised in accordance with the tripartite model of disability in order to avoid one-dimensional readings. The project cuts across the mainstream-special binary and reveals the epistemological value of non-normative community in both preparing for, and succeeding in, 21st-century academia.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information and Comments:	This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in the Journal of Further and Higher Education on 12th September, 2019, available online: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0309877X.2019.1669774
Faculty / Department:	Faculty of Education and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences
Depositing User:	David Bolt
Date Deposited:	09 Oct 2019 11:04
Last Modified:	12 Feb 2021 14:17
URI:	https://hira.hope.ac.uk/id/eprint/2934

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