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Turning experience into theory: The affirmation model as a tool for critical Praxis
Social Work and Social Sciences Review
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Turning experience into theory: The affirmation model as a tool for critical Praxis
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Cameron, Colin; Niorthumbria University
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In this article I discuss the affirmation model, initially proposed by Swain and French (2000), as an intervention in an ongoing debate within disability studies around the usefulness of the social model. I consider the purpose of developing models, such as the social and affirmation models, and identify the lack of definitions in Swain and French’s original suggestion as an inherent weakness. I then outline my own research, undertaken with the aim of identifying whether useful affirmation model definitions might be fashioned, and relate my conclusions to Freire’s idea of critical Praxis. I conclude by proposing the affirmation model as a practical tool for use by social workers to identify the ways in which disabling social relations are reproduced in everyday encounters..
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Whiting & Birch Ltd
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2015-05-19
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Peer-reviewed Article |
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application/pdf
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https://journals.whitingbirch.net/index.php/SWSSR/article/view/802
10.1921/swssr.v17i3.802 |
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Social Work and Social Sciences Review; Vol 17, No 3: Disability and Enabling Approaches; 108-121
1746-6105 0953-5225 |
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eng
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https://journals.whitingbirch.net/index.php/SWSSR/article/view/802/874
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Copyright (c) 2015 Social Work and Social Sciences Review
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