Seeking inclusion: Understanding moral spaces

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Clapton, JR
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2008
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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.

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JOURNAL OF INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY RESEARCH

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52

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Biomedical and clinical sciences

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Other human society not elsewhere classified

Psychology

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