IngentaConnect Selfidentity and the arts education of disabled young people

Author: Taylor, Margaret¹

Source: Disability & Society, Volume 20, Number 7, Number 7/December 2005 , pp. 763-778(16)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

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Abstract:

Overall, little is known about the ways in which disabled children and young people produce artwork or how they experience arts education. Neither is it known to what extent they are encouraged to produce work that engages with the expressive development of a sense of self that incorporates experiences of impairment and disability. This article is based on my recent PhD research which has investigated the ways in which a group of disabled young students are being enabled, via their arts education, to engage in a process of self‐realisation whereby negative and oppressive perceptions of disability have been identified and addressed via their artwork. Whilst current post‐social model discourses that emphasise the multiplicity or plurality of identity are acknowledged, my research has demonstrated that disabled young people can be empowered through the expression of the lived experience of impairment and disability and thereby encouraged towards a positive, inclusive and potentially multi‐identity perspective.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1080/09687590500335782

Affiliations: 1: Hereward College, UK

Self‐identity and the arts education of disabled young people