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Danforth, Scot – Journal of the Association for Persons with Severe Handicaps (JASH), 2001
This article explores the practice of social inquiry in professional work, drawing from the democratic ethics of John Dewey. It explains how Dewey viewed inquiry as free, cooperative, and practical and concludes with a description of advisory work within the self-advocacy movement as an example of Deweyan democracy in action. (Contains…
Descriptors: Attitudes toward Disabilities, Decision Making, Democracy, Disabilities
Gersten, Russell; Irvin, Larry – Journal of the Association for Persons with Severe Handicaps (JASH), 2001
In this response to an article that explores the practice of social inquiry in professional work by drawing from the democratic ethics of John Dewey (Danforth, 2001), tensions, unresolved issues, and seeming paradoxes in Dewey's thinking are discussed. The value of multi-perspective and multi-voiced inquiry is emphasized. (Contains references.)…
Descriptors: Attitudes toward Disabilities, Decision Making, Democracy, Disabilities
