Category: Research

Restraining Confinement in Early America

Wulf Scouller on

Confinement has always had a certain Romantic quality in the public imagination. Or perhaps Gothic. Whether fictional, as in Rochester’s first wife in Jane Eyre, semi-fictional, as with the “Man in the Iron Mask,” or factual – think of the depredations of Bedlam asylum – the threat of confinement, being forcefully restrained in a single… Continue Reading Restraining Confinement in Early America

Disability: Pedagogy and Identity in the Classroom

Jemma Lakmaker on

Disability is not taught as a topic on the United Kingdom’s national curriculum. Whilst there has been much improvement in recent years regarding disability rights for children throughout the UK, the exclusion of disability from the national curriculum contributes to a lack of understanding of lived experiences. It also reinforces disability stigma and its ‘abnormality’… Continue Reading Disability: Pedagogy and Identity in the Classroom