01517nas a2200181   4500000000100000008004100001653001500042653001200057653003100069653001400100100001400114245007200128856006800200300001400268490000700282520103200289022001401321       2014                            d10aDisability10aCulture10aChildren with disabilities10aAttitudes1 aBeckett A00aNon-disabled children's ideas about disability and disabled people.  uhttp://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01425692.2013.800444  a856 - 8750 v353 a<p>This article discusses findings from an Economic and Social Research Council-funded study exploring non-disabled children’s ideas about disability. This represents the first in-depth sociological investigation of children’s ideas about disabled people as members of wider society. Data are presented from focus group discussions with children aged 6–7 and 10–11. The article draws upon William H. Sewell Jr’s theorizing of structure and agency and, in particular, employs his concept of ‘cultural schemas’. The article explores non-disabled children’s enactment of various cultural schemas relating to disability and argues that although they are capable of questioning, even transforming, schemas, they are primarily engaged in enacting a series of ‘hegemonic’ schemas that maintain their privileged position as non-disabled people. The article concludes by urging schools and educationalists to do more to encourage non-disabled children to think differently and positively about disabled people.</p>
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