An international conversation on disabled children's childhoods: Theory, ethics and methods

Curran, Tillie; Underwood, Kathryn; Moreno Angarita, Marisol; Runswick-Cole, Katherine; Wertlieb, Donald

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.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Oct 16, 2020
• Online Publication Date: Dec 20, 2020
• Publication Date: Dec 20, 2020
• Deposit Date: Jan 4, 2021
• Publicly Available Date: Jan 15, 2021
• Journal: Canadian Journal of Disability Studies
• Print ISSN: 1929-9192
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 9
• Issue: 5
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.15353/cjds.v9i5.699
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/6962446