Life Stories on the Social Image of Disability. An Educational Outlook

Moisés Mañas Olmo,Beatriz Margarita Celada,Pablo Cortés González

doi:10.17583/qre.2020.6061

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Abstract

This paper forms part of the results of the ongoing doctoral thesis with the title Resilience and intellectual disability in residential environments using life stories. From a narrative and inclusive biographical approach, we delve deeper into the life history of four people who have been diagnosed with intellectual disability and who live in a residential environment in the city of Malaga (Spain). The field work was carried out using semi-structured and in-depth biographical interviews. The analysis reveals one of the conceptions that is a priority in this paper: the “social image” of disability, structured in three main areas for the purposes of this article: “the image of disability from social culture and identity”, “the image of disability from close contexts” and, lastly, “subversive experiences to the image of disability from inside”. In conclusion, there is a commitment to continue generating another social image of disability based on a more social and inclusive paradigm.

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ObjectivesWays of Compiling Information, Analysis Procedure and Rating Strategies
The social conception hanging over People with an intellectual disability (PWID) can be studied from three different areas (Pintos, 2005): (1) social systems (policy-making, law, science, education, etc.; (2) organisational systems; and (3) within a more relational level, we find the interactive systems that arise amid the diversity of conceptions and self-perceptions about PWID
We observe that the labels imposed on the PWID in our research study have stayed over the years, in social, family and school contexts, which has had an effect on their identity as regards their disability

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Ways of Compiling Information, Analysis Procedure and Rating Strategies. We propose biographical interviews for collecting information related to the results of this text. We developed them from a semi-structured design and carried out from a non-leadership procedure (Flick, 2004), with questions of the type: What would you like to talk about? We used targeted interviews (Merton & Kendall, 1946), in which we gradually introduced a greater level of structure to provide a more specific view of the particular topic we manage, some examples are: Tell me about your family / Tell me about school / What was lifelike at home? We offer some more detailed information about the outlined biographical interviews and its participants: Table 1.

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