Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Disability and a Good Life: Thinking through Disability
This online course introduced contemporary understandings of disability and explored how thinking through disability can enrich our understanding of a good life. It covered the social model of disability, disability history, and the intersections between disability and other dimensions of diversity.
6 weeks, 5 hours per week
Louisa Smith
Lecturer
UNSW Sydney
Leanne Dowse
Associate Professor
UNSW Sydney
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Identify and explain how understandings of disability have changed over time
- Evaluate the importance of listening to the ideas and life experiences of people with disabilities
- Evaluate the usefulness of the social model as a framework for understanding disability inclusion
- Explain the importance of examining disability across the life course
- Explain and critically analyse how disability intersects with other dimensions of human diversity
- Identify and explain what a good life might mean for a diversity of people, including people with disabilities
Syllabus
- The difference between disability and impairment
- The social and medical models of disability
- The classification, labelling and counting of disability
- The history of disability in the Global North
- Disability across the life course
- The intersection between disability and other identities or social categories
- Western and non-western philosophical traditions that inform ideas of a good life
Issued on 28th November 2016
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