This international seminar was held on 4th July 2008 at The Open University, Milton Keynes and was preceded by the 2008 Conference Spending Time on the 3rd July 2008
In February 1937 the Australian tabloid newspaper Truth reported that a resident of Victoria 's Kew Cottages was severely injured when she caught her hand in a mincing machine while employed in the institution's kitchen.
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Drawing upon a range of archive material, including oral history recordings, we take a glance at scouting (with some passing reference to guiding) and its off shoots in learning disability institutions during the twentieth century.
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I work as a Senior Lecturer/Researcher at the Department of Social Work at University College West in Esbjerg, Denmark. My main interests are: patterns of marginalisation and subculture, identity-politics, and self-organisation of people with (learning) disabilities - and its potential feedback to services and professionals in the welfare (market) praxis.
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Ebba moved to an institution in the late 70s when she was 19 years old. Gudrun started to work at the same institution a few years later. After Ebba moved from the institution they didn't have contact for many years but since 2003 they have worked closely together on a life-history research project.
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Goffman's covert study of closed institutions (1991) revealed an existence for the inmates which shocked the western world, particularly the privileged and liberal members of society. He observed that many were often 'herded into a day room to be observed by one pair of eyes', and this was how they spent most of their time.
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Bill Roberts talks about his life in Ireland, and Carol Hamilton talks about working with Bill to tell his life story, and getting his story put onto a website.
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Liz Tilley
Chair of the Social History of Learning Disability (SHLD) Research Group
School of Health, Wellbeing and Social Care
Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies
The Open University
Walton Hall
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MK7 6AA
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