Towards a critical pedagogy for inclusion: disability-led arts and its radical promise in Singapore

The inclusion of disabled people in Singapore (and globally) is gaining traction given the dominance of transnational instruments like the United Nations Convention on the Rights for Persons with Disabilities. Yet, in the absence of disability rights legislation, inclusion in Singapore has taken on...

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Main Authors: Zhuang, Victor Kuansong, Choo, Bella, Lee-Khoo, Grace
Other Authors: Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-1762392024-05-14T05:19:33Z Towards a critical pedagogy for inclusion: disability-led arts and its radical promise in Singapore Zhuang, Victor Kuansong Choo, Bella Lee-Khoo, Grace Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information Social Sciences Disabled people Social inclusion The inclusion of disabled people in Singapore (and globally) is gaining traction given the dominance of transnational instruments like the United Nations Convention on the Rights for Persons with Disabilities. Yet, in the absence of disability rights legislation, inclusion in Singapore has taken on markedly different forms, based on ablenationalist notions of productivity and meritocracy. Situated amidst these global and national frameworks of social inclusion, we consider the recent emergence of disability-led arts in Singapore. These disabled-led initiatives have proliferated in the past five years and have afforded new opportunities to challenge existing meanings of inclusion and to impart new forms of knowledge about the disabled body. In this article, we analyse recent disabled-led art productions put up by Access Path Productions, a disability-led arts creative organisation. In pivoting to the disabled body/mind as a generative form of knowledge and embodiment, these disabled-led performances offer new artistic practices spanning both digital and physical forms. Importantly, these initiatives have engaged with existing art and cultural spaces and institutions in Singapore, transforming existing ways of doing, thinking, and knowing about disability and offering a critical praxis aimed at (re)educating the public on the meanings of disability. 2024-05-14T05:19:33Z 2024-05-14T05:19:33Z 2024 Journal Article Zhuang, V. K., Choo, B. & Lee-Khoo, G. (2024). Towards a critical pedagogy for inclusion: disability-led arts and its radical promise in Singapore. Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies. https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02560046.2023.2295529 0256-0046 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/176239 10.1080/02560046.2023.2295529 2-s2.0-85182415403 en Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies © 2024 Critical Arts. All rights reserved.
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topic Social Sciences
Disabled people
Social inclusion
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Disabled people
Social inclusion
Zhuang, Victor Kuansong
Choo, Bella
Lee-Khoo, Grace
Towards a critical pedagogy for inclusion: disability-led arts and its radical promise in Singapore
description The inclusion of disabled people in Singapore (and globally) is gaining traction given the dominance of transnational instruments like the United Nations Convention on the Rights for Persons with Disabilities. Yet, in the absence of disability rights legislation, inclusion in Singapore has taken on markedly different forms, based on ablenationalist notions of productivity and meritocracy. Situated amidst these global and national frameworks of social inclusion, we consider the recent emergence of disability-led arts in Singapore. These disabled-led initiatives have proliferated in the past five years and have afforded new opportunities to challenge existing meanings of inclusion and to impart new forms of knowledge about the disabled body. In this article, we analyse recent disabled-led art productions put up by Access Path Productions, a disability-led arts creative organisation. In pivoting to the disabled body/mind as a generative form of knowledge and embodiment, these disabled-led performances offer new artistic practices spanning both digital and physical forms. Importantly, these initiatives have engaged with existing art and cultural spaces and institutions in Singapore, transforming existing ways of doing, thinking, and knowing about disability and offering a critical praxis aimed at (re)educating the public on the meanings of disability.
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Choo, Bella
Lee-Khoo, Grace
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Choo, Bella
Lee-Khoo, Grace
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title Towards a critical pedagogy for inclusion: disability-led arts and its radical promise in Singapore
title_short Towards a critical pedagogy for inclusion: disability-led arts and its radical promise in Singapore
title_full Towards a critical pedagogy for inclusion: disability-led arts and its radical promise in Singapore
title_fullStr Towards a critical pedagogy for inclusion: disability-led arts and its radical promise in Singapore
title_full_unstemmed Towards a critical pedagogy for inclusion: disability-led arts and its radical promise in Singapore
title_sort towards a critical pedagogy for inclusion: disability-led arts and its radical promise in singapore
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