Rupturing Concepts of Disability and Inclusion

TABLE OF CONTENTS
FOREWORD ......................................................................................................... xiii
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.....................................................................................xv
PROLOGUE: The Quilter’s Journal..................................................................... xvii
PART ONE: OPENING THE ‘SCRAPBAG’: EXPLORING ‘INCLUSION’
IN SOCIO-ETHICAL FABRICS...............................................................................1
CHAPTER ONE: Introduction ..................................................................................1
1.1 Inclusion as a Concept.....................................................................................1
1.2 An Exploration ................................................................................................5
1.3 The Research Focus, Objectives, and Question ............................................10
1.4 Summary........................................................................................................11
CHAPTER TWO: Conceiving a Quilt: Creating a Method ....................................13
2.1 Introduction ...................................................................................................13
2.2 The Relevance of a Judeo-Christian Context................................................14
2.2.1 Biblical Understandings of Disability ..................................................14
2.2.2 The Christian Church as a Service Respondent....................................19
2.3 Intersections Between Judeo-Christian and Western Philosophical
Influences.......................................................................................................20
2.4 Different Aspects of Inclusion ......................................................................22
2.5 Setting a Methodology ..................................................................................23
2.5.1 Exploring a Methodological Process....................................................23
2.5.2 Creating a Methodological Metaphor...................................................28
2.5.3 Applying the Metaphor.........................................................................29
2.5.4 Constructing a ‘Research Quilt’ ...........................................................35
2.6 Summary........................................................................................................35
PART TWO: CONFIGURING THE WEAVE OF THE FRAGMENTS
OF INCLUSION ......................................................................................................37
CHAPTER THREE: Threads of Configuration 1: The Warps
of Understandings of Disability: Theories, Definitions, Assumptions
and Descriptions.......................................................................................................39
3.1 Exploring Terminologies...............................................................................39
3.2 Seeking a Definition of ‘Disability’ ..............................................................40
3.3 Perspectives of Disability..............................................................................42
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