Fieldwork and disabled students: Discourses of exclusion and inclusion

Journal of Geography in Higher Education

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 255-280

  Hall, Tim ^a   Healey, Mick ^a   Harrison, Margaret ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Disabled students; Discourses; Exclusion; Fieldwork; Higher education; Strategies for inclusion

Indexed keywords

DISABILITY; FIELDWORK; GEOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH; HIGHER EDUCATION; SOCIAL EXCLUSION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 3943064394     PISSN: 03098265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0309826042000242495     Document Type: Article

References (79)

1. Adams, M. (2001) Guidance and Support for GEES staff making changes to their programmes of Study to accord with CoP and SENDA legislation. Paper presented to National Subject Centre for Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences conference on 'Special Educational Needs and Disabilities', 19 October, Coventry.
2. Ash, A., Bellew, J., Davies, M., Newman, T. & Richardson, L. (1997) Everybody in? The experience of disabled students in further education, Disability and Society, 12, pp. 605-621.
3. Baron, S., Phillips, R. & Stalker, K. (1996) Barriers to training for disabled social work students, Disability and Society, 11, pp. 361-377.
4. Birnie, I. & Grant, A. (2001) Providing learning support for students with mental health difficulties undertaking fieldwork and related activities, Geography Discipline Network, University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham (http://www.glos.ac.uk/gdn/disabil/index.htm) (accessed 4 March 2002).
5. Borland, J. & James, S. (1999) The learning experience of students with disabilities in higher education: a case study of a UK University, Disability and Society, 14 pp. 85-101.
6. Butler, R. & Bowlby, S. (1997) Bodies and spaces: an exploration of disabled people's experiences of public space, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 15, pp. 411-433.
7. Chalkley, B. & Waterfield, J. (2001) Providing learning support for students with hidden disabilities and dyslexia undertaking fieldwork and related activities, Geography Discipline Network, University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham (http://www.glos.ac.uk/ gdn/disabil/index.htm) (accessed 4 March 2002).
8. Chouinard, V. (1997) Making space for disabling differences: challenging ableist geographies, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 15, pp. 379-387.
9. Chouinard, V. & Grant, A. (1995) On being not even anywhere near 'the project': ways of putting ourselves in the picture, Antipode, 27, pp. 137-166.
10. Cooke, M. I., Anderson, K. S. & Forrest, S. E. (1997) Creating accessible introductory, geology fieldtrips, Journal of Geoscience Education, 45, pp. 4-9.
11. Cottingham, C., Healey, M. & Gravestock, P. (2000) Fieldwork in the geography, earth and environmental sciences higher education curriculum: an annotated bibliography (http:// www.glos.ac.uk/gdn/disabil/ fieldwk.htm) (accessed 4 March 2002).
12. Desforges, H. (1999) Inclusive geography fieldwork, Teaching Geography, 24, pp. 14-16.
13. DfEE (Department for Education and Employment) (2000) Consultation Paper of Special Educational Needs and Disability Rights in Education Bill (Sheffield: DfEE).
14. Domosh, M. (1991) Towards a feminist historiography of geography, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, NS 16, pp. 95-105.
15. Driver, F. & Rose, G. eds (1992) Nature and Science Essays in the History of Geographical Knowledge, Historical Geography Research Group of the Institute of British Geographers, London Research Series no. 28.
16. Dumayne-Peaty, L. & Wellens, J. (1998) Gender and physical geography in the United Kingdom, Area, 30, pp. 197-205.
17. Frank, A. W. (1991) For the sociology of the body: an analytical review, in: M. Featherstone, B. Hepworth & B. Turner (Eds) The Body: Social Process and Cultural Theory (London: Sage).
18. Further Education Unit (1990) Planning FE: Equal Opportunities for People With Disabilities or Special Educational Needs (London: Further Education Unit).
19. Gardiner, V. & Anwar, N. (2001) Providing learning support for students with mobility impairments undertaking fieldwork and related activities, Geography Discipline Network, University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham (http://www.glos.ac.uk/gdn/disabil/ index.htm) (accessed 4 March 2002).
20. Gleeson, B. (1996) A geography for disabled people, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 21, pp. 387-96.
21. Gleeson, B. (1998) Geographies of Disability (London: Routledge).
22. Gold, J. R., Jenkins, A., Lee, R., Monk, J. R., Riley, J., Shepherd, I. D. H. & Unwin, D. J. (Eds) (1991) Teaching Geography in Higher Education: A manual of Good Practice, IBG Special Publication, no. 24 (Oxford: Blackwell).
23. Golledge, R. (1993) Geography and the disabled: a survey with special reference to vision impaired and blind populations, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, NS 18, pp. 63-85.
24. Golledge, R. (1997) On reassembling one's life: overcoming disability in the academic environment, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 15, pp. 391-409.
25. Gravestock, P. & Healey, M. (Eds) (2001) Providing learning support for disabled students undertaking fieldwork and related activities: a set of six guides, Geography Discipline Network, University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham (http://www.glos.ac.uk/gdn/disabil/index.htm (accessed 4 March 2002).
26. Hall, T., Harrison, M. & Healey M. (2000) The experience of academic departments and disability support units in providing learning support for students undertaking fieldwork and related activities: report on surveys (http://www.glos.ac.uk/gdn/disabil/index.htm http:// www.chelt.ac.uk/el/philg/gdn/projects. htm#disabil (accessed 4 March 2002).
27. Haraway, D. (1988) Situated knowledges: the science question in feminism and the privilege of partial perspective, feminist Studies, 14, pp. 575-99.
28. Harding, S. (1991) Whose Science? Whose Knowledge? Thinking from Women's Lives (Milton Keynes: Oxford University Press).
29. Healey, M. & Blumhof, J. (2001) Mapping the territory: the nature of fieldwork and fieldwork research in geography, earth and environmental sciences, Paper presented to the National Subject Centre for Geography Earth and Environmental Sciences Workshop on 'Improving the effectiveness of fieldwork: what is worth researching', 5 June, London.
30. Healey, M., Roberts, C., Jenkins, A. & Leach, J. (2001) Issues in providing learning support for disabled students undertaking fieldwork and related activities, Geography Discipline Network, University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham (http://www.glos.ac.uk/gdn/disabil/index.htm) (accessed 4 March 2002).
31. Healey, M., Roberts, C., Jenkins, A. & Leach, J. (2002) Disabled students undertaking fieldwork towards inclusivity?, Planet, Issue 3, January 9-10.
32. HEFCE (Higher Education Funding Council for England) (1995a) Quality assessment of geology 1994-5, subject overview report - geology HEFCE, Bristol (http://www.hefce.ac.uk/pubs/hefce/ 1995/qo.htm) (accessed 4 March 2002).
33. HEFCE (Higher Education Funding Council for England) (1995b) Quality assessment of environmental studies 1994-5, subject overview report - environmental studies HEFCF, Bristol (http:// www.hefce.ac.uk/pubs/hefce/1995/qo.htm) (accessed 4 March 2002).
34. HEFCE (Higher Education Funding Council for England) (1995c) Quality assessment of geography 1994-5, subject overview report - geography HEFCE, Bristol (http://www.hefce.ac.uk/pubs/ hefce/1995/qo.htm) (accessed 4 March 2002).
35. Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) (2000) statistics (http://www.hesa.ac.uk/holisdocs/pubinfo/ student/disab90.csvhttp://www.hesa.ac.uk/ holisdocs/pubinfo/student/disab89.htm) (accessed 10, November 2000).
36. HMI (1992) A Survey of Geography Fieldwork in Degree Courses, Summer 1990-Summer 1991: A Report by HMI, Report 9/92/NS, Department of Education and Science Her Majesty's Inspectorate, Stanmore, Middlesex.
37. HMI (1993) A survey of Geography fieldwork in British degree courses: extracts from a report by Her Majesty's Inspectors, Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 17, pp. 35-6.
38. Imrie, R. (1996) Disability and the City: International Perspectives (London: Paul Chapman).
39. Kent, M., Gilbertson, D. D. & Hunt, C. O. (1997) Fieldwork in geography teaching: a critical review of the literature and approaches, Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 21, pp. 313-32.
40. Kinsman, P. (1995) Landscape, race and national identify: the photography of Ingrid Pollard, Area, 27, pp. 300-10.
41. Kirkup, G. & Smith-Keller, L. (1992) Inventing Women: Science, Technology and Gender (Cambridge: Polity Press).
42. Kitchin, R. M. (2000) Geography and Disability (Sheffield: Geographical Association).
43. Kitchin, R. M., Blades, M. & Golledge, R. (1997) Understanding spatial concepts at the geographic scale without the use of vision, Progress in Human Geography, 21, pp. 225-42.
44. Kitchin, R. M., Jacobson, R. D., Golledge, R. G. & Blades, M. (1998) Belfast without sight: exploring geographies of blindness, Irish Geography, 31, pp. 34-46.
45. Livingstone, I., Matthews, H. & Castley, A. (1998) Fieldwork and Dissertations in Geography, Geography Discipline Network, Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education, Cheltenham.
46. Lonergan, N. & Andreson, L. W. (1998) Field-based education: some theoretical considerations, Higher Education Research and Development, 7, pp. 63-77.
47. Low, J. (1996) Negotiating identities, negotiating environments: an interpretation of the experiences of students with disabilities, Disability and Society, 11, pp. 235-48.
48. Luzzadder-Beach, S. & MacFarlane, A. (1996) The environment of gender and science: women in physical geography, Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Association of American Geographers, Charlotte, NC, April.
49. Maguire, S. (1998) Gender differences in attitudes to undergraduate fieldwork, Area, 30, pp. 207-14.
50. McDowell, L. (1979) Women in British geography, Area, 11, pp. 151-5.
51. McDowell, L. (1992) Doing gender: feminism, feminists and research methods in human geography, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 17, pp. 399-416.
52. McEwan, C. (1998) Gender, science and physical geography in nineteenth-century Britain, Area, 30, pp. 215-23.
53. McEwen, L. (1996) Fieldwork in the undergraduate geography programme: challenges and changes, Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 20, pp. 379-84.
54. McKendrick, J. H. (1996) A discipline of equal opportunity? Gender and participation in postgraduate geography, Area, 28, pp. 318-30
55. Momsen, J. (1980) Women in Canadian geography, Professional Geographer, 21, pp. 365-9.
56. Nairn, K. (1996a) Constructing identities: gender, geography and the culture of fieldtrips, Paper presented at the Royal Geographical Society/Institute of British Geographers Annual Conference, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow.
57. Nairn, K. (1996b) Parties on geography fieldtrips: embodied fieldwork?, New Zealand Women's Studies Journal, 12, pp. 86-97.
58. Nairn, K. (1997) Geography fieldtrip bodies: re-presenting students' drawings, in: E. Bliss (Ed.) Islands: economy, society and environment, conference proceedings Second Joint Conference, Institute of Australian Geographers and New Zealand Geographical Society, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Tasmania.
59. Nairn, K. (1999a) Embodied fieldwork, Journal of Geography, 98, pp. 272-82.
60. Nairn, K. (1999b) Joke-work and the hetero-sexualising of geographic discourse, Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Association of American Geographers, Honolulu Hawaii, March.
61. Nast, H. (1994) Opening remarks on 'Women in the field', Professional Geographer, 46, pp. 54-66.
62. NCIHE (The National Committee of Inquiry into Higher Education) (1997) Higher Education in the Learning Society (Norwich: HMSO).
63. Pocock, D. (1993) The senses in focus, Area, 25, pp. 11-16.
64. Porteous, J. D. (1990) Landscapes of the Mind: Worlds of Sense and Metaphor (Toronto: University of Toronto Press).
65. Poussu-Olli, H.-S. (1999) To be a disabled university student in Finland, Disability and Society, 14, pp. 103-13.
66. Preece, J. (1995) Disability and adult education - the Consumer view, Disability and Society, 10, pp. 87-102.
67. QAA (The Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education) (2000a) Code of practice - students with disabilities (QAA, Gloucester) (http://www.qaa. ac.uk/public/COP/COPswd/contents.htm) (accessed 4 December 2000).
68. QAA (The Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education) (2000b) Benchmark statement for geography (QAA, Gloucester) (http://www.qaa.ac.uk/crntwork/benchmark/geography.pdf) (accessed 6 June 2001).
69. QAA (The Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education) (2000c) Benchmark statement for earth sciences, environmental sciences and environmental studies (QAA, Gloucester) (http:// www.qaa.ac.uk/crntwork/benchmark/earthscience.pdf) (accessed 6 June 2001).
70. Rodaway, P. (1994) Sensuous Geographies: Body, Sense and Place (London: Routledge).
71. Rose, G. (1993) Feminism and Geography: The Limits of Geographical Knowledge (Cambridge: Polity Press).
72. Sargant, N. (1991) Learning ood Leisure (Leicester: National Institute for Adult Continuing Education).
73. Schiebinger, L. (1993) Nature's Body: Gender in the Making of Modern Science (Boston, MA: Beacon Press).
74. Schuster, M. & Van Dyne, S. (1985) Stages of curriculum transformation, in: M. Schuster & S. Van Dyne (Eds) Women's Plane in the Academy: Transforming the Liberal Arts Curriculum (Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Alanheld).
75. Shepherd, I. (2001) Providing learning support for students with blind or visually-impaired students undertaking fieldwork and related activities Geography Discipline Network, University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham (http://www.glos.ac.uk/gdn/disabil/index.htm) (accessed 4 March 2002).
76. Shepherd, L.J. (1993) Lifting the Veil: The Feminine Face of Science (Boston, MA: Shambhala).
77. Sparke, M. (1996) Displacing the field in fieldwork, Masculinity, metaphor and space, in: N. Duncan, (Ed.) Bodyspace, pp. 212-33 (London: Routledge).
78. Valentine, G. (1997) Ode to a geography teacher: sexuality and the classroom, Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 21 pp. 417-23.
79. Wareham, T. Clark, G. & Laugesen, C. (2001) Providing learning support for students with deaf or hearing-impaired students undertaking fieldwork and related activities, Geography Discipline Network, University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham (http://www.glos.ac.uk/gdn/disabil/ index.htm) (accessed 4 March 2002).