Independent Living as a Critical Pedagogical Practice: Disability, Emancipation, and Social Transformation from the Perspective of Crip Studies
Elisa Costantino, Barbara Centrone, Fabio Bocci
The aim of this paper is to explore the pedagogical and political dimensions of independent living, starting from a critical reading of the dominant models and highlighting the practices and theories that, in different contexts, are generating possible alternatives, such as that of arriving at a Crip Pedagogy oriented towards the development of Crip Studies. The objective is, therefore, to provide a reinterpretation in terms of critical pedagogy that goes beyond the medical-welfare approach in order to construct a language and a space for thought that support independent living as a shared goal to strive for.
Keywords
Independent living, Interdependence, Critical pedagogy, Crip Studies, Crip Pedagogy.
