EVERYTHING ABOUT US WITH US: APPLICATION OF A
PARTICIPATORY PEDAGOGIC MODEL IN PROFESSIONAL
EDUCATION
S.Yalon-Chamovitz1, Y. Kreim2, C. Gutman3
1 Ono Academic College, Israel ; 2 Disability Activist, Israel
Traditionally, the training of health and welfare professionals is based
on the transfer of theoretical knowledge as well as clinical evidence.
These professions, while professing a shift from the medical to the
social model of disability, still practice according to a medical model,
which functions to strengthen the legitimacy of the professional and
sustain the dependency of their clients. Socio-political models of
disability challenge these traditional perspectives in the caring
professions and their roles in reinforcing the oppression of the lived
experiences of people with disabilities. Adopting the social model of
disability, we present a participatory pedagogic model in which
professionals and service users co-teach academic courses.
Throughout these courses, occupational therapy students and social
work students engage with a co-teacher service user to contest the
traditional methods and deconstruct accepted hierarchies. This
teaching method focuses on the development of a new therapeutic
dialogue within the partnerships created in the classroom, which
enables the students and co-teachers to participate in the challenging
experience of integrating theoretical knowledge with lived knowledge,
thereby contributing to the development of a more inclusive
knowledge base.
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