Inclusive Research With People With Learning Disabilities: Past, Present, and Futures

by Walmsley, Jan; Johnson, Kelley

• ISBN13: 9781843100614
• ISBN10: 1843100614
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-05-01
• Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Pub

Summary

In this thought-provoking book, Jan Walmsley and Kelley Johnson discuss participative approaches to research and provide an up-to-date account of inclusive practice with individuals with learning disabilities. Drawing on evidence from two major studies, they explain how lessons learnt from inclusive research in the learning disability field are applicable to others working with marginalized groups. They look at the challenges inherent in this work, such as balancing the voice of the researcher with that of disabled participants and clarifying roles within research projects, and explore how it can become more inclusive and empowering. Providing valuable information and advice to researchers, policy makers and students as well as other health and social care professionals, this book presents a comprehensive examination of participative research in social care.

Author Biography

Jan Walmsley is a Senior Lecturer at the Open University School of Health and Social Welfare in Milton Keynes.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	7	(2)
Introduction: Reputable? Helpful? ... and inclusive?	9	(12)
PART 1: DESCRIBING THE PAST	21	(72)
1 Of Shoes and Ships and Sealing Wax and... Inclusive Research: Or Where Did It All Start?	23	(21)
2 Normalizing, Emancipating and Making a Stand	44	(17)
3 Inclusive Research in Learning Disability: Beginnings	61	(18)
4 Knowing the Elephant	79	(14)
PART 2: EXPLORING THE RESEARCH PROCESS	93	(96)
5 Nothing About Us Without Us: Good Times Bad Times	95	(14)
6 Living Safer Sexual Lives: Making Research Work	109	(17)
7 What Matters to People with Learning Disabilities?	126	(20)
8 Managing Inclusive Research	146	(18)
9 Who Uses it and How?	164	(19)
10 What Has Been Achieved?	183	(6)
PART 3: BEYOND RHETORIC TO NEW REALITIES	189	(31)
11 Beyond Rhetoric...	191	(16)
12 ... To New Realities	207	(13)
Conclusion: Why Do It?	220	(4)
References	224	(20)
Subject index	244	(9)
Author index	253	(1)
Author index	253
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Introduction	15	(10)
Chapter 1: Planets	25	(18)
Four fundamental elements expressed by the planets; the internal energy-intelligence of the celestial bodies and their relationship to Man; the Force as the primal life flow divided into ten Sfirot; the contributions of the patriarch Abraham and Rabbi Isaac Luria toward our understanding of the purpose and influences of the planets.
Chapter 2: The Frontiers of Space	43	(6)
A comprehensive road map and knowledge provide the connection to control of our life.
Chapter 3: The Invisible Cosmos	49	(14)
The physicists' quantum picture of the universe; the background-figure illusion and its implications; the physicists' fruitless search for the quantum reality; the Divine word of infinity transformed into finite language by the Kabbalist.
Chapter 4: Waves and Particles	63	(32)
The question of causality in classical physics and Kabbalah; Rabbi Ashlag's contributions to the study of nature's laws; is the Universe expanding? Matter and anti-matter; the creative process according to Kabbalah; the effect of man's thought and the Encircling Light; parallel universes.
Chapter 5: The Expanding Inner Universe	95	(42)
The necessity of gaining knowledge of existence; theories developed by science, areas of uncertainty and areas of understanding; the approach of the Zohar; the nature of Light; the spiritual nature of matter; the two levels of consciousness of mankind; man as the director of movement in the universe; the unified principle of wave consciousness and the fragmented principle of particle consciousness.
Chapter 6: The Language of Kabbalah	137	(28)
The common language at the beginning; the language of the Bible; the development of language; the language of the Decalogue; the Zohar's clarification of the language of the Bible; the relationship of language to the Revelation on Mount Sinai.
Chapter 7: Prayer	165	(38)
Man's role as master of his destiny and controller of universal activity; prayer as a ladder to connect to the celestial realm; in prayer with Kavannah the Kabbalist dwells in the realm of Divine forces; the opinions of Shammai and Hillel; transcending the corporeal realm of opposites; a discourse in the Zohar on the significance of prayer; an examination of the Tetragrammaton, and other Holy Names; the concept of Tshuvah.
References	203	(6)
Index	209