Regranting identity to the outgraced: narratives of persons with learning disabilities: methodological considerations
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- Joan Lesseliers (UGent) , Geert Van Hove (UGent) and Stijn Vandevelde (UGent)
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- Good research should be relevant and useful, it may even be enlightening or symbolic, but it can also be emancipatory. Qualitative research can be useful in challenging structures, policies and practices that disempower and marginalize segments of the population. However, could it be that the empowerment of the participant ends where the weakness of the researcher begins? In qualitative studies the researcher seems to have a number of favourite interviews. In a study on the relational and sexual experiences of 46 people with learning disabilities, 12 interviews were withdrawn from the general data on the basis of lack of relevance. It is important to re-examine why the voice of some people fell out of the in-depth analysis and whether this was justified. In this article some methodological opportunities and pitfalls to re-grant identity to these silenced narratives are considered and discussed.
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- empowerment, selection of participants, silenced narratives, communication difficulties, PEOPLE, CARE, BARRIERS, re-examination of data, qualitative research
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-665363
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- Lesseliers, Joan, et al. “Regranting Identity to the Outgraced: Narratives of Persons with Learning Disabilities: Methodological Considerations.” DISABILITY & SOCIETY, vol. 24, no. 4, 2009, pp. 411–23, doi:10.1080/09687590902876193.
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- Lesseliers, J., Van Hove, G., & Vandevelde, S. (2009). Regranting identity to the outgraced: narratives of persons with learning disabilities: methodological considerations. DISABILITY & SOCIETY, 24(4), 411–423. https://doi.org/10.1080/09687590902876193
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- Lesseliers, Joan, Geert Van Hove, and Stijn Vandevelde. 2009. “Regranting Identity to the Outgraced: Narratives of Persons with Learning Disabilities: Methodological Considerations.” DISABILITY & SOCIETY 24 (4): 411–23. https://doi.org/10.1080/09687590902876193.
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- Lesseliers, Joan, Geert Van Hove, and Stijn Vandevelde. 2009. “Regranting Identity to the Outgraced: Narratives of Persons with Learning Disabilities: Methodological Considerations.” DISABILITY & SOCIETY 24 (4): 411–423. doi:10.1080/09687590902876193.
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- 1.Lesseliers J, Van Hove G, Vandevelde S. Regranting identity to the outgraced: narratives of persons with learning disabilities: methodological considerations. DISABILITY & SOCIETY. 2009;24(4):411–23.
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- [1]J. Lesseliers, G. Van Hove, and S. Vandevelde, “Regranting identity to the outgraced: narratives of persons with learning disabilities: methodological considerations,” DISABILITY & SOCIETY, vol. 24, no. 4, pp. 411–423, 2009.
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