Inclusivity and research: Capturing the lived experiences of young people with disabilities

This chapter seeks to stimulate thinking and reflection by exploring the position and place of young people with disabilities in research. In doing this, the authors contextualize the chapter within the subject area of physical education. By mapping out the research terrain of young people with disabilities they find these young people have been marginalised and often precluded from research. More recent developments around 'inclusive research' do signal the possibilities for research and the benefits of actively engaging with young people with disabilities. They extend discussions in this chapter by highlighting how teaching and learning in Higher Education can draw on this kind of inclusive research in order to develop 'narratives'. These are stories based upon research data from young people with disabilities. In particular, the authors present two examples of research narratives and discuss how these can be used in teaching and learning to promote student thinking around the meaning and experiences of physical education for young people with disabilities