Open Access21. Enriching Social Work Through Interdisciplinary Disability Studies
Author(s) -
Irene Carter,
Christine Quaglia,
Donald R. Leslie
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
collected essays on learning and teaching
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2368-4526
DOI - 10.22329/celt.v3i0.3251
Subject(s) - disability studies , perspective (graphical) , curriculum , sociology , work (physics) , pedagogy , engineering ethics , social work , medical model of disability , learning disability , point (geometry) , psychology , social science , developmental psychology , gender studies , political science , engineering , mechanical engineering , geometry , mathematics , artificial intelligence , psychiatry , computer science , law
This paper recommends that faculties of Social Work incorporate Disability Studies in their curriculum by embracing its interdisciplinary deconstructionist perspective. Disability Studies encourages Social Work to move beyond person-in–the-environment and anti-oppressive approaches to find more effective ways of removing barriers for persons with disabilities, and new opportunities to include them in the larger culture. Discussing the critical nature of Disability Studies, the authors point out how Social Work is learning to embrace the interdisciplinary nature of Disability Studies.