This provocative and challenging book argues for the vital importance of critical self-reflexion in the field of adaptive physical activity (APA).
It makes a powerful case for embracing discussions of the harm caused by ableist assumptions of the ideal body, maximizing capabilities and perfecting normativebased movement that dominate contemporary discourse in APA, and calls for more critical introspection about what APA is, how it is performed, and what might be needed to bring a collaborative relational ethic to this field. This book focuses on two key themes: Firstly, how ableism as a foundational belief system of APA is present in the undergraduate curriculum, professional preparation, professional practice, and organizational policies. Secondly, how to make the comfortable uncomfortable by openly debating the harm that results from non-reflexive (nondisabled) hubris in APA. The goal is to spark an exchange of ideas among scholars, practitioners, and organizational leaders and therefore to shift the paradigm from one of professional expertism to one that centres disability wisdom holders, bringing a fundamental change yo how we perform adaptive physical activity.
This book is important, progressive reading for anybody with an interest in adaptive physical activity, adapted physical education, disability sport, inclusive education, the philosophy and ethics of disability and sport, or disability in wider society.
Author(s): Donna Goodwin, Maureen Connolly
Series: Disability Sport and Physical Activity Cultures
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 266
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Contributors
Ableism Hiding in Plain Sight: An Introduction in Four Acts
Part I Making the Comfortable Uncomfortable
Chapter 1 Disrupting Ableism in Adaptive Physical Activity through Anti-ableist Research and Practice
Chapter 2 10 Things I Hate about ‘Inclusion’ in Physical Education
Chapter 3 Disablism, Ableism, and Enlightened Ableism in Contemporary Adapted Physical Activity Textbooks: Practising What We Preach?
Chapter 4 The Ethics of Wilful Ignorance: “Someone Needs to Tell Those Parents There Is Something Wrong with Their Kid”
Part II Ableism in Adaptive Physical Activity: The Taken-for-Granted
Chapter 5 Adaptive Physical Activity Practices That Can Perpetuate or Perpetrate Trauma and Mental Distress: More Harm Than Good?
Chapter 6 Counterstories of Community Service Learning: “We Are Not an Eight-Hour Dumping Ground”
Chapter 7 Emulating Disability: Disrupting a Taken-for-granted Practice
Part III Social Justice and Critical Pedagogy
Chapter 8 Critical Self-Reflexivity in the Education of Adaptive Physical Activity Practitioners: Disputing the Severely Able-bodied Student
Chapter 9 Towards a Critical Discourse of Physical Literacy in Adapted Physical Activity
Chapter 10 Intersectionality, Disability, Justice, and Critical Pedagogy
Chapter 11 Engaging in Reflexive Writing in Adaptive Physical Activity
Part IV Organizational Spaces that Exclude
Chapter 12 Ableism within Adapted/Physical Education Teacher Education: Implications for Practice
Chapter 13 Divergent Professionalism in Inclusive Physical Education: Neglecting Collaboration in Preparation, Professional Development, and Practice
Chapter 14 Dis/ability Sport for “All”: The Ultimate Dream
Part V Reflexivity: A Moral Imperative for Change and Optimism
Chapter 15 Reflections on Sport, Disability, and the Need for Adaptive Physical Activity to Evolve: Growing Up
Chapter 16 Critical Service-Learning and Reflection on Power and Assumptive Thinking
Chapter 17 Inspiration Porn and Disability Sport
Chapter 18 How Critical Engagement with Embodiment, Agency, and Hope Contributes to Authentic Pedagogy in Adaptive Physical Activity
Conclusion: An Emerging Era for Adaptive Physical Activity
Index
