Educating the disabled, different and 'odd' student: Towards Productive Pedagogy
22 July 2010, 2.30pm - 4.00pm
Asia Pacific Teacher Leadership Institute, an institute of Singapore Teachers' Union's co-operative will be organising a free public seminar entitled Educating the Disabled, Different and 'Odd' Student: Towards a Productive Pedagogy. The details are:
Different and disruptive students challenge the practice of teachers, the workings of schools and the culture of education. Each year, more and more children are diagnosed with conditions including Autism, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Emotional Behaviour Disability (EBD), which suggest some inherent problems within them. But what other ideas can be embraced to understand these children in more positive ways? What imaginative forms of education do such children demand? This lecture approaches this question from the perspective of psychology.
Psychology has relied upon the 'odd', different and disruptive in order to become the popular profession that it is today. 'Odd' often equates with 'the pathological' in psychology and, over many years, psychologists have serviced society's need to understand, treat and, in some cases, eradicate these 'ills'. Psychologists have also helped to create a contemporary self-help culture in which people spend more and more time governing their own differences. Disruptive people are increasingly expected to manage themselves. But what alternatives can be offered?
How can we promote ways of understanding that embrace the disruptive? In what ways can 'odd people' transform our understandings of diversity in everyday life? How can the differences be celebrated and used in positive ways? This lecture will address these questions through references to stories, theories, actions and ideas. A case will be made for the development of a productive psychology.
Speaker's Profile
Dan Goodley is Professor of Psychology at Manchester Metropolitan University. His research engages with the areas of disability studies, learning disabilities, narrative research and critical community psychologies. He is an MMU Psychology Graduate (1993), obtained his PhD in the Department of Sociological Studies at the University of Sheffield and has worked in departments of psychology, sociology, social policy and education. He has worked closely with disability studies experts with the label of 'learning difficulties'.
Recent publications include:
Goodley, D. (2000). Self-advocacy in the Lives of People with Learning Difficulties: The Politics of Resilience. Buckingham: Open University Press.
Goodley, D. and Moore, M. (2002). Arts against Disability: The Performing Arts of People with Learning Difficulties. Plymouth: BILD.
Goodley, D., Lawthom, R., Clough, P. and Moore, M. (2004). Researching Life Stories: Method, Theory and Analyses in a Biographical Age. London: Routledge Falmer Press.
Goodley, D. and Lawthom, R. (Eds). (2005). Disability and Psychology: Critical Introductions and Reflections. London: Palgrave.
Goodley, D and Van Hove, G. (Eds). (2005). Another Disability Studies Reader: Including People with Learning Difficulties. Belgium: Garant publishers.
Goodley, D. (2010). Disability studies: An interdisciplinary introduction. London: Sage.
Current research projects
Economic and Social Research Council (£255, 000 - Grant No. RES-062-23-1138). Does every child matter, post Blair? The interconnections of disabled childhoods. Principal Investigators; Dan Goodley (Manchester Metropolitan University) and Janice McLaughlin (University of Newcastle). September 2008 - October 2010.
http://www.rihsc.mmu.ac.uk/postblairproject/
Prime Minister's Initiative 2 / UK Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS) Research Co-operation Programme (£40,000). Towards a culturally sensitive disability studies: Interconnections of disability studies in and across Malaysia and the UK. Principal Investigators: Dan Goodley and Rebecca Lawthom (Manchester Metropolitan University); Dr Ling How Kee and Mr Dolly Paul Carlo (Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Malaysia). http://www.rihsc.mmu.ac.uk/malaysiaukdisability/
Venue & Time
Research Communication International
20 Upper Circular Road #02-21 The Riverwalk.
Singapore 058416
2.30pm - 4.00pm
Fees & Registration
Application Procedure
- Download & complete the application form and email to programmes@educare.sg.
- Alternatively, you could also fax the application form to 6297 7386 (Principal’s signature will be required).
