The Metanarrative of Learning Disability

Barden, Owen and Walden, Steve (2021) The Metanarrative of Learning Disability. In: Metanarratives of Disability: Culture, Assumed Authority, and the Normative Social Order. Autocritical Disability Studies . Routledge, Abingdon, pp. 77-93. ISBN 9780367523190

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Abstract

Over the last two centuries, learning disability has become an organising concept: a concept which has radically transformed our sense of what it means to be - or not be - a person. In this chapter, we employ a historiographic methodology to explore a metanarrative which is so powerful and pervasive that it envelops both people with learning disabilities and people without. We draw on archival evidence, our own perspectives, and those of our learning-disabled co-researchers to illuminate three tropes which persist through the metanarrative: that people with learning disabilities are vulnerable, unworthy, and requiring control.

Item Type:	Book Section
Keywords:	disability, learning disability, history, participatory research
Faculty / Department:	Faculty of Education and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences
Depositing User:	Owen Barden
Date Deposited:	26 Nov 2021 10:44
Last Modified:	17 Nov 2022 16:07
URI:	https://hira.hope.ac.uk/id/eprint/3397

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