Researching Researchers: Interviews with researchers about disability

  • Researching Researchers: Interviews with researchers about disability

Researching Researchers: Interviews with researchers about disability

$12.00 CAD

In her debut book, self advocate Sheenagh Morrison interviews 15 researchers of various kinds who are expanding the scope of what it means to be supported, and what support means. Researching Researchers is an inclusive research project.

 

From the Introduction by Michael Kendrick, PhD:

'For many readers this very engaging book will be a literary experience they will not likely have had before. In this book, Sheenagh Morrison, a young and relatively new leader in the British Columbia’s self advocacy People First movement, takes the reader along with her in a series of interviews with many compelling Canadian and American characters involved as movement activists, thinkers and leaders in researching and reshaping the life possibilities for people with disabilities.

Her research is exploratory in nature and she is very skillful at letting people speak for themselves. Her questions are typically penetrating because she invariably asks her subjects not only about what they do, she also asks them about who they are personally. She repeatedly asks “Can you tell me about someone with a disability who has been important to you?” The power of such a good question for unmasking the personal and cultural meaning of disability may arise simply because the researcher is a person who lives with a disability and is thus able to formulate the questions that are important to her. This is crucial not only for good research to emerge, it is also important for the wellbeing, livability and decency of our communities that we ponder the challenge of her question about whether someone with a disability has ever been important to us. Good research should make us think and reflect and this book most certainly does."

 

We feel that this is an important book, in that it is one of very few works of research lead by a person with a disability, and as such, will be of interest to self advocates and their supporters, as well as people taking community support or special education courses.

 

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