Main description:

This volume represents a compilation of critically reflexive thinkers in adaptive physical activity (APA) who have willingly embraced the uncomfortable issues of ableism, disableism, and ethically questionable professional practices in the field.
From an unprecedented, frank, and introspective stance, the authors make the comfortable and taken-for-granted, uncomfortable.
International researchers and educators bring reflexion to ableism in higher education - including curriculum making, textbooks as artefacts of the professional landscape in APA, and the models of disability that unconsciously frame post-secondary instruction in APA.

Contents:

Ableism Hiding in Plain Sight: An Introduction in Four Acts

MAUREEN CONNOLLY

PART I

Making the Comfortable Uncomfortable

1 Disrupting Ableism in Adaptive Physical Activity through Anti-ableist Research and Practice

KAREN P. DEPAUW

2 10 Things I Hate about 'Inclusion' in Physical Education

JUSTIN A. HAEGELE AND WESLEY J. WILSON

3 Disablism, Ableism, and Enlightened Ableism in Contemporary Adapted Physical Activity Textbooks: Practising What We Preach?

DANIELLE PEERS, LINDSAY EALES, AND DONNA GOODWIN

4 The Ethics of Wilful Ignorance: "Someone Needs to Tell Those Parents There Is Something Wrong with Their Kid"

DONNA GOODWIN

PART II

Ableism in Adaptive Physical Activity: The Taken-for-Granted

5 Adaptive Physical Activity Practices That Can Perpetuate or Perpetrate Trauma and Mental Distress: More Harm Than Good?

LINDSAY EALES

6 Counterstories of Community Service Learning: "We Are Not an Eight-Hour Dumping Ground"

KYOUNG JUNE YI

7 Emulating Disability: Disrupting a Taken-for-granted Practice

JENNIFER LEO

PART III

Social Justice and Critical Pedagogy

8 Critical Self-Reflexivity in the Education of Adaptive Physical Activity Practitioners: Disputing the Severely Able-bodied Student

OYVIND FORLAND STANDAL

9 Towards a Critical Discourse of Physical Literacy in Adapted Physical Activity

KYLE PUSHKARENKO

10 Intersectionality, Disability, Justice, and Critical Pedagogy

SAMUEL R. HODGE, ROSS D. JORDAN, AND KIMBERLY J. SMITH

11 Engaging in Reflexive Writing in Adaptive Physical Activity

BRENDA ROSSOW KIMBALL

PART IV

Organizational Spaces that Exclude

12 Ableism within Adapted/Physical Education Teacher Education: Implications for Practice

MICHELLE GRENIER AND MARTIN GIESE

13 Divergent Professionalism in Inclusive Physical Education:

Neglecting Collaboration in Preparation, Professional Development, and Practice

HAYLEY J. MORRISON

14 Dis/ability Sport for "All": The Ultimate Dream

CARLA FILOMENA SILVA AND P. DAVID HOWE

PART V

Reflexivity: A Moral Imperative for Change and Optimism

15 Reflections on Sport, Disability, and the Need for Adaptive Physical Activity to Evolve: Growing Up

HEATHER R. KUTTAI

16 Critical Service-Learning and Reflection on Power and Assumptive Thinking

JIHOUN AN

17 Inspiration Porn and Disability Sport

JEFFREY J. MARTIN

18 How Critical Engagement with Embodiment, Agency, and Hope Contributes to Authentic Pedagogy in Adaptive Physical Activity

MAUREEN CONNOLLY

Conclusion: An Emerging Era for Adaptive Physical Activity

DONNA GOODWIN