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A Theory of Motivation and Ontological Enhancement: The role of disability policy in student empowerment and institutional change

The significance of this article is in its combination of a theoretically rich understanding of Aristotelian ethics to the problem of affect and motivation in philosophy, with specific reference to notions of embodiment and the education of students with disabilities. The work in this paper was informed by the author’s own work in developing an institutional disability policy at a research-intensive institution of Higher Education. The conceptual framework developed here, with its application of philosophical complexity upon policy questions, impacted on a major AHRC/ESRC funded programme of qualitative research in secondary schools, as well as informing the HEI’s disability strategy.