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The Metanarrative of Learning Disability
Owen Bardenvisibility
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Over the last two centuries, learning disability has become an organising concept: a concept which has radically transformed our sense of what it means to be-or not be-a person. In this chapter, we employ a historiographic methodology to explore a metanarrative which is so powerful and pervasive that it envelops both people with learning disabilities and people without. We draw on archival evidence, our own perspectives, and those of our learningdisabled co-researchers to illuminate three tropes which persist through the metanarrative: that people with learning disabilities are vulnerable, unworthy, and requiring control.
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