Vita indipendente come pratica pedagogica critica. Disabilità, emancipazione e trasformazione sociale nella prospettiva dei Crip Studies

The aim of this paper is to explore the pedagogical and political dimensions of independent living, starting from a critical reading of the dominant models and highlighting the practices and theories that, in different contexts, are generating possible alternatives, such as that of arriving at a Crip Pedagogy oriented towards the development of Crip Studies. The objective is, therefore, to provide a reinterpretation in terms of critical pedagogy that goes beyond the medical-welfare approach in order to construct a language and a space for thought that support independent living as a shared goal to strive for.