What it means to be human

Dan Goodley is a Professor at the School of Education, University of Sheffield. This talk was given on Tuesday 18th March 2014. Dan teaches on the MA in Psychology and Education and the BA Education, Culture and Childhood. He has taught undergraduate and postgraduate psychology, sociology and education in a number of Universities and was an A Level teacher for several years in the 1990s. Dan is interested in theorising and challenging the conditions of disablism (the social, political, cultural and psycho-emotional exclusion of people with physical, sensory and/or cognitive impairments) and ableism (the contemporary ideals on which the able, autonomous, productive citizen is based). Dan is interested in engaging with poststructuralist, postconventionalist, social psychoanalytic and narrative accounts of exclusion and political resistance. He also hopes to engage with the expertise of non-normative children and their families to expose different ways of ‘being human’. This has extended his interest in critical disability studies to include ideas from queer theory, critical race, postcolonialism and feminism. Inspiration & Co interview: https://soundcloud.com/inspirationandco/dan-goodley-what-it-means-to