Inclusive arts: Meanings and practices

Arts practices in unreasonable doubt? Reflections on understandings of arts practices in healthcare contexts

This article suggests that the discourse on arts and health encompass contemporary arts practices as an active and engaged analytical activity. Distinctions between arts therapy and arts practice are made to suggest that clinical evidence-based evaluation, while appropriate for arts therapy, is not appropriate for arts practice and in effect cast them in unreasonable doubt. Themes in current di...

Understanding and Developing Inclusive Practices in Schools

Culture care meanings, beliefs, and practices in Rural Dominican Republic.

PURPOSE This ethnonursing study explored the meanings, beliefs, and practices of care for rural Dominicans in the Dominican Republic. DESIGN Leininger's culture care diversity and universality theory, ethnonursing, and four-phase analysis method guided the study. Interviews were conducted with 19 general and 10 key informants. FINDINGS Analysis of interviews revealed three main themes: (a) ...

Self-Determination and the Third Generation of Inclusive Practices

This article proposes that the confluence of pressures brought about by school reform efforts worldwide, advances in research and practices pertaining to self-determination and student-directed learning, and new ways of thinking about and conceptualizing disability are requiring us, as educators, to reconsider our historical approaches and intervention models and to move from creating programs ...

"It is what it is": masculinity, homosexuality, and inclusive discourse in mixed martial arts.

In this article we make use of inclusive masculinity theory to explore online media representations of male homosexuality and masculinity within the increasingly popular combat sport of mixed martial arts (MMA). Adopting a case-study approach, we discuss narratives constructed around one aspirational male MMA fighter, Dakota Cochrane, whose history of having participated in gay pornography beca...