Curriculum as Challenge: Planning for compulsory risk managment and rehabilitation of intellectually disabled offenders (original) (raw)

Curriculum as Challenge: Planning for compulsory risk managment and rehabilitation of intellectually disabled offenders

This article examines the possibility of effecting change to student understandings of ways to support offenders with an intellectual disability through curriculum design. The curriculum was developed for a training course for the care co-ordinators and care managers working under the NZ legislation the Intellectual Disability (Compulsory Care and Rehabilitation) Act 2003. The potential of curriculum to be counter hegemonic is examined in relation to dilemmas and paradoxes inherent in the legislation. The intent of each of the themes around which the curriculum is described and compared with student experiences as related in evaluations and interviews with student volunteers.