Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Maurice Merleau-Ponty was a French phenomenological philosopher whose major work, Phenomenology of perception (1945), centred the body as the basis of perception, meaning, and lived experience. His work is useful for analysing schools because it helps resist purely administrative readings of children’s behaviour and asks what the child is experiencing in their body, environment, and relationships.
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Three contexts, one experience: why autism debates fracture
The fracture happens before anyone finishes speaking. One person describes autism as neurological difference observable through brain imaging and cognitive testing; another person describes autism as diagnostic category that unlocks resources within rationed systems; a third person describes autism as lived experience of navigating a world built around neurotypical assumptions about communication, sensory processing, and…