Livre d'Or

Well, we do teach our students about the social model and disablism and so on, but being taught doesn't mean they actually learn it. In fact, I was really really delighted a couple of years back when they replaced a somewhat dreadful if well-meaning mobility aid simulation with a workshop run by a trainer who is herself physically disabled as the core of this part of the teaching. It might well be that they'll learn better from reading a novel they empathize with, than from formal teaching.

I think I personally need to read the Quarmby, though it's daunting. I think it's too scholarly for this particular project where we're looking more for engagement with literature and Humanities. But I might well try and get it onto the more core reading list for the disability module, as it sounds highly relevant and more up-to-date than a lot of the theoretical sociology stuff we're assigning at the moment.