Course overview
This course will enable students to critically analyse and apply to service development/delivery discourses of ageing and (dis)ability, including social model, applied linguistics, person centred practices, social role valorisation, positive behaviour support and the impact of these on contemporary practice through the NDIS, Myagedcare and international treaties. Students will develop a critical understanding of the discourses of ageing and (dis)ability, NDIS, Myagedcare, international treaties, media representations of disability and ageing, social activism, the Disability Discrimination Act (Australia) and other relevant legislation. Students will evaluate the impact of ableist discourses on understandings of disability and ageing in different national and international contexts.
Course learning outcomes
- Examine key historical and contemporary theories and concepts of ageing, disability, diversity and discrimination, particularly as they emerge from global research around critical ageing and disability studies
- Interrogate key policies and acts related to disability and ageing, discrimination and human rights and how these are critical to service development and contemporary practice under NDIS and Myagecare
- Evaluate and articulate dominant ideologies of 'normality' and 'normalcy' work to produce and maintain social regimes of ableism
- Compare and contrast non-ableist theoretical perspectives, concepts and methodologies such as social role valorisation and positive behaviour support that promote and value the well-being, inclusion and the diverse knowledges of people living with disability and/or who are ageing