The Construction of Disability in our Schools

Teacher and Parent perspectives on the experience of labelled students
Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-90-8790-220-9
Verlag: Brill Academic Publishers

Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 196 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 278 g

Reihe: Studies in Inclusive Education

This book is about the meaning of disability in schools. The experience of children with disabilities in schools has undergone substantial change over the last twenty years (and more) with many children who would have once been living in institutions now going to school alongside their peers. With this monumental shift and the continuing increased participation of people with disabilities, one might wonder what disability means. In the age of institutionalisation disability referred to those people who were not able to actively participate in society. As it turns out, many of the people who were deemed unable to participate were so only because the society in which they lived had kept them from active participation through institutionalisation. In Ontario, Canada, where the author lives and works, many adults with disabilities continue to live in institutions and are also active in their communities. So it is not just the institutions that “disable” people. There are many reasons that people fall into the classification of “disabled” and for some this classification begins in an institution, often in the institution of school. This book explores the different beliefs that teachers and parents hold about disability and the types of barriers that cause disability, and how these beliefs translate into education practice.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Underwood, Kathryn

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Teildisziplinen der Pädagogik Sonderpädagogik, Heilpädagogik