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

Valerie Harwood

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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

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

Valerie Harwood

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

Valerie Harwood

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

Valerie Harwood

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'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

Valerie Harwood

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Neither Good Nor Useful: Looking Ad Vivum In Children's Assessments Of Fat And Healthy Boides, Valerie Harwood

Valerie Harwood

Fat bodies are not, fait accompli, bad. Yet in our international research we found overwhelmingly that fat functioned as a marker to indicate health or lack of health. A body with fat was simply and conclusively unhealthy. This paper reports on how this unbalanced view of fat was tied to assessments of healthy bodies that were achieved by the act of looking. Despite the efforts of health education in each of the three countries in our study, children and young people cited the act of looking at bodies to assess health and when they did they arrived at the conclusion …

The New Outsiders: Adhd And Disadvantage, Valerie Harwood

Valerie Harwood

Recent research has pointed to the uneven distribution of diagnoses of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, with disproportionately high numbers in areas marked by poverty (Gifford Sawyer et al., 2004; Olfsen et al., 2003). This chapter examines this issue of ADHD and social and economic disadvantage. Drawing on research with youth professionals from some of the most disadvantaged communities in Australia, the chapter puts forward the case that the ADHD phenomenon has highly problematic effects on the lives of children and young people in these communities. The intent is to show how the ADHD phenomenon interacts with disadvantage, and suggest how …

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

Valerie Harwood

Based on the author's in-depth research with children diagnosed with behavioural difficulties, this book provides a thorough critique of today's practices, examining:

*The traditional analyses of behavioural disorders and the making of disorderly children *The influence of the 'expert knowledge' on behavioural disorders and its influence on schools, communities and new generations of teachers *The effect of discourses of mental disorder on children and young people *The increasing medicalisation of young children with drugs such as Ritalin.

This book offers an innovative and accessible analysis of a critical issue facing schools and society today, using Foucaultian notions to pose critical …