Department of Education, Unit Catalogue 2007/08 |
ED10181 Experience of disability |
| Credits: 15 |
| Level: Certificate |
| Modular: no specific semester |
| Assessment: CW 100% |
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Aims & Learning Objectives: Aims: * To promote greater understanding and insight into the complexity of the concept of disability. * To develop positive attitudes towards disability and disabled people; * To enhance the quality of services which affect disabled people's abilities to achieve personal life choices. Candidates will be required to: * Reflect on their personal knowledge, attitudes, values and beliefs about: i) Normality and disability; ii) The uniqueness of the individual; * Compare individual views and experiences of disability; * Explore and challenge societal and cultural perceptions and attitudes towards normality and disability and how these have evolved; * Appraise and challenge the different definitions and models of disability and how they may influence the opportunities for people of different abilities to achieve personal life choices in society; * Explore the relationship between language, labelling, stigma and the role of the media in relation to disability and exclusion; * Demonstrate an understanding of the rationale for empowering/enabling people to achieve personal life choices. Content: This unit will encourage students to address a wide range of issues relating to disability including: quality of life, normality and normalisation, human rights; experiences of disability; attitudes to disability; disability in the past, present and future including legislation, policies and practice; the labelling of disability; issues relating to inclusion and exclusion, dependence and independence; personhood including issues relating to identify, sexuality, gender, culture, religion, empowerment and advocacy. |