Seeking inclusion: Understanding moral spaces

Abstract

Seeking inclusion: Understanding moral spaces J. R. Clapton (J.Clapton@griffith.edu.au)* *School of Human Services, Griffith University, Meadowbrook ????, Queensland, Australia Aim: Inclusion or social integration, as widely sought-after goals for people with ID, are most often planned in a simplistic manner, believing that inclusion occurs when social spaces are transformed and renegotiated. This paper challenges that belief. Method: Through an in-depth exploration, two dominant ethics will be exposed. An Ethic of Normalcy and an Ethic of Anomaly are identified as the operational ethics underpinning the inclusion - exclusion dualism. How people with ID are ethically sustained as 'anomalous others' becomes apparent and the ethical constraints to inclusion that these constructions present are revealed. Results and conclusions: This paper concludes that inclusion within a social space for people with ID remains problematic for as long as a dominant moral space which informs the social context remains intact.