An International Conversation on Disabled Children’s Childhoods: Theory, Ethics and Methods

Authors

  • Kathryn Underwood Professor, School of Early Childhood Studies, Ryerson University Director, Inclusive Early Childhood Service System project
  • Marisol Moreno Angarita Tenure professor, Department of Human Communication, School of Medicine Universidad Nacional de Colombia
  • Tillie Curran Senior Lecturer in Social Work University of the West of England
  • Katherine Runswick-Cole Professor of Education, The School of Education The University of Sheffield
  • Donald Wertlieb President, Partnership for Early Childhood Development & Disability Rights (PECDDR)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15353/cjds.v9i5.699

Abstract

This article brings together members of the International Advisory Committee for the Inclusive Early Childhood Service System (IECSS) project, a longitudinal study of interactions with institutional processes when families have a young child with disabilities. The article introduces international discourses on early childhood development (both individual and community) and raises questions about the ethics of these discourses in the context of historical and current global inequalities. We consider the exporting of professional discourses from the global north to the global south through directives from global institutions, and the imposition of medical thinking onto the lives of disabled children. We discuss theoretical positions and research methods that we believe may open up possibilities for change.

Author Biographies

Kathryn Underwood, Professor, School of Early Childhood Studies, Ryerson University Director, Inclusive Early Childhood Service System project

Professor, School of Early Childhood Studies, Ryerson University

Director, Inclusive Early Childhood Service System project

Marisol Moreno Angarita, Tenure professor, Department of Human Communication, School of Medicine Universidad Nacional de Colombia

Tenure professor, Department of Human Communication, School of Medicine

Universidad Nacional de Colombia

Tillie Curran, Senior Lecturer in Social Work University of the West of England

Senior Lecturer in Social Work

University of the West of England

Katherine Runswick-Cole, Professor of Education, The School of Education The University of Sheffield

Professor of Education, The School of Education The University of Sheffield

Donald Wertlieb, President, Partnership for Early Childhood Development & Disability Rights (PECDDR)

President, Partnership for Early Childhood Development & Disability Rights (PECDDR)

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Published

2020-12-20

How to Cite

Underwood, K., Moreno Angarita, M., Curran, T., Runswick-Cole, K., & Wertlieb, D. (2020). An International Conversation on Disabled Children’s Childhoods: Theory, Ethics and Methods. Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, 9(5), 302–327. https://doi.org/10.15353/cjds.v9i5.699

Issue

Vol. 9 No. 5 (2020): Disability Studies in Education—Critical Conversations

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Articles

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