What we can learn from a village in India, a small town in Belgium, and the founders of the Disability Pride Parade about integrating disabled people as full members of our communities
My family has a keen interest in this issue due to the work of my mother as a special education supervisor in a school district. Thanks for the post!
I am detecting a signal in the work I am pursuing that might help. If the pressure to "divide" the problem into lesser parts can be resisted (reductionism), then alternatives might be revealed. At least that appears to be the case for me on this issue. These "communities of identity" can also be coordinated to become group economic actors resulting in reaching an "embedded community" to a much greater degree than they currently are. Even if "seamless integration" remains elusive, that would be an improvement.
It is natural to reach out to affirm and validate and even support and protect those in whom we see our own weakness and vulnerability. This is a good and beautiful thing. This is a deep reorientation and a reminder of our shared humanity in a society where we have defined success as competitive, the survival of the fittest.
My family has a keen interest in this issue due to the work of my mother as a special education supervisor in a school district. Thanks for the post!
I am detecting a signal in the work I am pursuing that might help. If the pressure to "divide" the problem into lesser parts can be resisted (reductionism), then alternatives might be revealed. At least that appears to be the case for me on this issue. These "communities of identity" can also be coordinated to become group economic actors resulting in reaching an "embedded community" to a much greater degree than they currently are. Even if "seamless integration" remains elusive, that would be an improvement.
It is natural to reach out to affirm and validate and even support and protect those in whom we see our own weakness and vulnerability. This is a good and beautiful thing. This is a deep reorientation and a reminder of our shared humanity in a society where we have defined success as competitive, the survival of the fittest.