Pastoral Relationship with People with Intellectual ... - Theses

123institution that continues to bear responsibility for the ownership and ongoingmanagement of the community facility. As Goggin and Newell assert, with themaintenance of institutional values in the community setting, what emerges is “aproblematic reinstitutionalisation.” 345 Whilst the institution sees fit to transfertraditional institutional values concerned with staff power and control to thecommunity setting, along with risk minimisation procedures and regulations, aform of mini-institutionalisation is destined to remain in place. The geographicallocation and architecture may be different but the institutional values abide.What also needs to be accounted for at this stage are the values of thecommunity into which the people with intellectual disability are being located.Efforts at deinstitutionalised accommodation practice can be curtailed by a lackof local community acceptance. As Goggin and Newell assert,Ironically, deinstitutionalization was premised on people withdisabilities being full and valued members of the community. Yet,so often we see that these quasi-institutionals have little to do withtheir next-door neighbours, and that residents are too oftenexcluded from the local community. 346Proceeding from this discourse it can be argued that the construction ofcommunity-based residences for people with intellectual disability cannot ensurethat such facilities do not still bear the marks of institutional accommodation.Even though they have been geographically separated from the central institution,and accommodation may approximate normal community architectural designand access to community facilities, such residences can remain fundamentallyguided by institutional values, ethos and practice.3.3 SummaryIntellectual disability has been defined as pertinent to this extendedreflection in two important ways. Firstly, people with an intellectual disabilityhave been observed to be the primary source of pastoral relationship which thispastoral carer engages in amidst the institutional context. Secondly, people withintellectual disability, understood as a marginalised socio-political grouping, canbe regarded as further from proscribed social norms than other oppressed socio-345 Goggin and Newell. Disability in Australia, 129.346 ibid.