Disabled Children's Childhood Studies: Critical Approaches in a Global Context

PART I: VOICES FOR CREATIVE THEORY, POLICY AND PRACTICE 1. My Story; Stevie, Cath, Colin and Billie Tyrie 2. My Sister Stevie; Billie Tyrie 3. Simply Children; Frejya Haraldsdóttir 4. Thinking Outside Y/our Problem Box: Transitions?; Jo Skitteral 5. Mug or a Teacup and Saucer?; Linda Derbyshire PART II: CONTEMPORARY INQUIRIES 6. Doing Real World Research with Disabled Children: Issues and Challenges; David Abbott 7. Remembering School in Different Historical Worlds: Changing Patterns of Education in the Lives of Disabled Children and Young People; Sonali Shah 8. Disability and Childhood in Spaces of Poverty: Critical Perspectives on Guatemala; Shaun Grech 9. 'Wearing it all with a smile': Psycho-emotional Disablism in the Lives of Parents of Disabled Children; Katherine Runswick-Cole PART III: CONTEMPORARY THEORIES 10. Disabled Children's Childhood Studies: Alternative Relations and Forms of Authority; Tillie Curran 11. 'The Spectre of the Norm': Historicising the Notion of the 'Normal Child'; Harriet Cooper 12. Considerations for an African Childhood Disability Studies; Tsitsi Chataika and Judy Mckenzie 13. The Disavowal of Uncanny Disabled Children: Why Non-Disabled People are so Messed Up Around Childhood Disability; Dan Goodley and Rebecca Lawthom 14. Researching Youth in Neoliberal Times: the Importance of Including Disability; Jenny Slater 15. Concluding thoughts; Katherine Runswick-Cole and Tillie Curran