Of Life Real and Unreal: An Ethics of the Heart

Session Submission Type: Symposium

Abstract

This session will revisit the scholarship of the eminent researcher and scholar, Lous Heshusius, Emeritus Professor (York University), who produced a powerful body of research and scholarship promoting the need to understand disability as it is lived with meaning and mastery. It was in her first book, Meaning in Life as Experienced by Persons Labeled Retarded in a Group Home (1981), a slim volume that was based on a substantial field study produced for her doctoral dissertation at Indiana University (1978), that Heshusius turned attention to the fact that feelings and meanings could occur when agency was afforded to those society labeled disabled.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Disability Studies in Education

Chair

• Linda P. Ware, SUNY - College at Geneseo

Papers

• The Illusion of Our Separativeness - Deborah J. Gallagher, University of Northern Iowa

• Reflexivity With and Without Self - Julie E. Allan, The University of Birmingham

• Of Tooth Fairies and Rabbit Holes: On Seeking the Real in an Unreal World - Alicia A. Broderick, Teachers College, Columbia University

• Outside the “Family of Malcontents”: Reflections on an Early Career of Creative Discontent - Emily A. Nusbaum, University of Colorado - Colorado Springs