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Mobile Asylums: Psychopathologisation As A Personal, Portable Psychiatric Prison, Valerie Harwood Jul 2013

Mobile Asylums: Psychopathologisation As A Personal, Portable Psychiatric Prison, Valerie Harwood

Valerie Harwood

No abstract provided.


The Place Of Imagination In Inclusive Pedagogy: Thinking With Maxine Greene & Hannah Arendt, Valerie Harwood Jul 2013

The Place Of Imagination In Inclusive Pedagogy: Thinking With Maxine Greene & Hannah Arendt, Valerie Harwood

Valerie Harwood

Conceptualising difference is a key task for inclusive pedagogy, and vital to the politics of inclusion. My purpose in this paper is to consider the place that imagination has in helping us to conceptualise difference, and to argue that imagination has a key part to play in inclusive pedagogy. To do this I draw closely on the work of Maxine Greene and Hannah Arendt. Arendt's work provides a means to conceptualise difference whereby difference is itself at the very heart of what constitutes our humanity. Greene's work on the arts has outlined the value of the imagination, and has argued …


How To Be A Real Lesbian. 'The Pink Sofa' And Some Fictions Of Identity, Valerie Harwood, Anna Hickey-Moody, Mary Lou Rasmussen Jul 2013

How To Be A Real Lesbian. 'The Pink Sofa' And Some Fictions Of Identity, Valerie Harwood, Anna Hickey-Moody, Mary Lou Rasmussen

Valerie Harwood

This chapter draws upon, and critically considers, select textures of a contemporary queer youth cultural formation. We focus on the production of a particular lesbian youth subculture on the World Wide Web, via a site called The Pink Sofa. Building upon Giroux's ("Making the Pedagogical More Political") assumption that culture plays "a central role in producing narratives, metaphors, and images that exercise a powerful pedagogical force over how people think of themselves and their relationship to others", we read The Pink Sofa as a popular and accessible kind of public pedagogy. We explore some situated examples of queer/lesbian identity construction …


El Diagnostico De Los Ninos Y Adolescentes Problematicos. Una Critica A Los Discursos Sobre Los Trastornos De La Conducta, Valerie Harwood Jul 2013

El Diagnostico De Los Ninos Y Adolescentes Problematicos. Una Critica A Los Discursos Sobre Los Trastornos De La Conducta, Valerie Harwood

Valerie Harwood

No abstract provided.


Policy, Schools And The New Health Imperatives, Valerie Harwood, Jan Wright Jul 2013

Policy, Schools And The New Health Imperatives, Valerie Harwood, Jan Wright

Valerie Harwood

No abstract provided.


Scrutininzing Sexuality And Psychopathology: A Foucauldian Inspired Strategy For Qualitative Data Analysis, Valerie Harwood, Mary Lou Rasmussen Jul 2013

Scrutininzing Sexuality And Psychopathology: A Foucauldian Inspired Strategy For Qualitative Data Analysis, Valerie Harwood, Mary Lou Rasmussen

Valerie Harwood

No abstract provided.


'It Felt Like I Was A Black Dot On White Paper': Examining Young Former Refugees' Experience Of Entering Australian High Schools, Jonnell Uptin, Jan Wright, Valerie Harwood Jul 2013

'It Felt Like I Was A Black Dot On White Paper': Examining Young Former Refugees' Experience Of Entering Australian High Schools, Jonnell Uptin, Jan Wright, Valerie Harwood

Valerie Harwood

Schools are often the first point of contact for young refugees resettling in Australia and play a significant role in establishing meaningful connections to Australian society and a sense of belonging in Australia (Olliff in Settling in: How do refugee young people fair within Australia's settlement system? Centre for Multicultural Youth Issues, Melbourne. http://www. cmyi. net. au/ResearchandPolicy. Accessed 21 June 2010, 2007; Gifford et al. in: Good Starts for recently arrived youth with refugee backgrounds: Promoting wellbeing in the first three years of settlement in Melbourne, Australia. Melbourne: La Trobe Refugee Research Centre. http://www. latrobe. edu. au/larrc/documents-larrc/reports/report-good-starts. pdf. Accessed 4 …


Diagnosing 'Disorderly' Children: A Critique Of Behaviour Disorder Discourses, Valerie Harwood Jul 2013

Diagnosing 'Disorderly' Children: A Critique Of Behaviour Disorder Discourses, Valerie Harwood

Valerie Harwood

No abstract provided.