Book Review – True Biz

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Sara Novic, Penguin Random House, 2022 pp ISBN 9780593241509 Through a blend of fiction and creative non-fiction Sara Novic has crafted an urgent and compelling lament of the demise of culturally important Deaf education In America. The fiction takes readers into the pleasures and pains of Deaf communities and outliers, whilst the non-fiction unwraps some mysteries of American sign language …

Book Review – Disrupting the academy with lived experience-led knowledge

Disrupting the Academy with Lived Experience-Led Knowledge book cover

Maree Higgins and Caroline Lenette (eds) Policy Press, Bristol, 2024 pp 194ISBN: 9781447366348 (pbk) Expert-knowers write chapters in this work, challenging academic norms, while providing potent examples of lived experience-led research. The epistemic justice framing in which lived experiences are prioritised and honoured, entwines with social justice. As Estelle Keerthana Ramaswamy notes: ‘Authors should declare their positionality in their research and writing …