Overcoming Disabling Barriers

Author : Len Barton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2006-09-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134182312

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This book provides a valuable route map to the development of thinking in disability studies over the last eighteen years. It includes over twenty essential articles from the journal Disability and Society, written by many of the leading authors in the field from the UK, the USA, Australia and Europe. Compiled by the current editors of the journal, it is divided into three sections which mirror the three central themes: disability studies – clearly illustrates the debates and challenges that have emerged within the field over the last two decades policy – offers a snapshot of social policy that has impinged on the lives of disabled people in many parts of the world research issues – reveals the inequalities between disabled and non-disabled people and the advocacy of new methods and research practices. The editors’ specially written introduction to each section contextualises the selection and introduces students to the main issues and current thinking in the field. Altogether this book is a rich source of ideas and insights covering conceptual, theoretical, empirical and cross-cultural issues and questions.

Author : Len Barton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2006-09-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134182329

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Overcoming Disabling Barriers by Len Barton Pdf

This book provides a valuable route map to the development of thinking in disability studies over the last eighteen years. It includes over twenty essential articles from the journal Disability and Society, written by many of the leading authors in the field from the UK, the USA, Australia and Europe. Compiled by the current editors of the journal, it is divided into three sections which mirror the three central themes: disability studies – clearly illustrates the debates and challenges that have emerged within the field over the last two decades policy – offers a snapshot of social policy that has impinged on the lives of disabled people in many parts of the world research issues – reveals the inequalities between disabled and non-disabled people and the advocacy of new methods and research practices. The editors’ specially written introduction to each section contextualises the selection and introduces students to the main issues and current thinking in the field. Altogether this book is a rich source of ideas and insights covering conceptual, theoretical, empirical and cross-cultural issues and questions.

Author : John Swain,Sally French,Colin Barnes,Carol Thomas
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781446293423

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Disabling Barriers - Enabling Environments by John Swain,Sally French,Colin Barnes,Carol Thomas Pdf

Since it was first published in 1993, Disabling Barriers, Enabling Environments has established itself as essential reading for anyone coming to the subject of disability studies. The book tackles a wide range of issues in numerous succinct chapters written by contributing authors, many of whom are disabled themselves. From the outset, the chapters take a multidisciplinary and international approach. The third edition is made up of 42 chapters, 15 of which are completely new to this edition, including: · Early seminal writings in disabled studies · Death and dying · Psychology · Hate crime and the criminal justice system · Sport · Psycho-emotional disablism and internal oppression. This seminal textbook conveys the continuing developments in the lives and experiences of disabled people. It is valuable reading for students and professionals in the fields of social work, sociology, social policy, health and nursing as well as disabled people.

Author : John Swain
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2004-04-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0761942653

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Disabling Barriers, Enabling Environments by John Swain Pdf

Written by disabled people who are leading academics in the field, the text comprises 45 short chapters, to provide a broad-ranging and accessible introduction to disability issues.

Author : Danielle van Dalen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : People with disabilities
ISBN : 0994147988

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Acknowledging Ability by Danielle van Dalen Pdf

Author : Colin Cameron
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781446296912

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Disability Studies by Colin Cameron Pdf

This textbook brings together a wide range of expert voices from the field of disability studies and the disabled people′s movement to tackle the essential topics relevant to this area of study. From the outset disability is discussed from a social model perspective, demonstrating how future practice and discourse could break down barriers and lead to more equal relationships for disabled people in everyday life. An interdisciplinary and broad-ranging text, the book includes 50 chapters on topics relevant across health and social care. Reflective questions and suggestions for further reading throughout will help readers gain a critical appreciation of the subject and expand their knowledge. This will be valuable reading for students and professionals across disability studies, health, nursing, social work, social care, social policy and sociology.

Author : Sonali Shah
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134789832

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Young Disabled People by Sonali Shah Pdf

Recent policies and government initiatives in many Western countries have strengthened the expectation that young disabled people have the right to be involved in decisions affecting their futures. Many of the choices that are currently taken out of young disabled people’s hands, including those relating to education and future employment, are now being viewed as an opportunity to encourage participation in the decision making process. Sonali Shah uses a comparative study of young disabled students within mainstream and special education to determine the influence these recent policies will have on the realization of their long term goals. Young Disabled People: Aspirations, Choices and Constraints will be essential reading for academics in the fields of education, disability studies and employment policy. It will also be valuable to policy makers and teaching and careers professionals.

Author : Alejandro Alberto Téllez Vargas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-12
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351612876

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Disability and Music Performance by Alejandro Alberto Téllez Vargas Pdf

Disability and Music Performance examines discriminatory social practices in music conservatoria, orchestras, music festivals and music competitions, which limit disabled people’s access to music performance at a professional level. Of particular interest are the disabling barriers that musicians with an intellectual, physical, sensory or neurological disability—or an acquired brain injury—encounter in the world of Western classical music, both as students and as professional performers. This book collects data in the form of semi-structured interviews and video and audio recordings to explore the voice, concerns and suggestions expressed by musicians with disabilities. It examines their perceptions of both inclusive and discriminatory practices in music institutions as well as the representation of, and audio-visual recordings by, key musical figures with disabilities. Its findings aim to contribute to the wellbeing of musicians with impairments by challenging disabling social practices that see them as inferior. This publication offers performers, teachers and researchers new perspectives for exploring some of the most common social dynamics in encounters between normative audiences, musicians and music critics, and musicians with disabilities. It invites the reader to recognise disability as a rightful identity category in music performance and to dismantle the disabling barriers that limit the participation of disabled people in music-making.

Author : Michele Moore
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135742966

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Moving Beyond Boundaries in Disability Studies by Michele Moore Pdf

What challenges are posed by changing transnational trends, agendas and movements that affect disabled people’s lives, and what can disabled people, their representative organisations and their governments do to advance the agenda for self-determination and inclusion? This book draws together the writing of academics and activists to depict the experience and perspective of disabled people in relation to a range of contemporary social changes, with a focus firmly on ways in which disabled people and their allies can act to counter disabling policies and practices. Throughout the book there is an emphasis on disabled people’s own voices and activism as the critical driver of theoretical critique and practical change. Chapters address a wide range of cultural, institutional and personal arenas to explore and contest the boundaries that disabled people seek to move beyond, from cross-border labour movements in Korea to experience of day services in England, from continuing and long-lasting realities of wars in Lebanon, Cambodia and Somalia to the beauty of harmony in Navajo traditions for understanding disability, from collective activism to individual participation in the Olympics. This book is recommended reading for students, researchers and activists interested in Disability Studies and is directly relevant to policy makers and practitioners in a position to reshape rights, spaces and innovations in response to the priorities disabled people feel and articulate are important for their lives. It was originally published as a special issue of Disability & Society.

Author : Alan Roulstone,Alison Sheldon,Jennifer Harris
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317376897

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Disability and Technology by Alan Roulstone,Alison Sheldon,Jennifer Harris Pdf

This edited collection brings together keynote articles from the journal Disability & Society to provide a comprehensive and though-provoking exploration of the place of technology in disabled people’s lives, documenting and analysing the growing impact of technology on disability and society over recent decades. The authors explore theoretical, empirical and moral dilemmas that arise with the changing relationship between technological change and the lives, aspirations and possibilities of disabled people. The volume is organised into three parts which consider early foundational work connecting disability and technology; key empirical studies related to the optimum use of technologies for independence and inclusion; and new moral and social dynamics thrown up by technological developments for disabled people’s lives.

Author : Barbara Arneil,Nancy J. Hirschmann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107165694

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Disability and Political Theory by Barbara Arneil,Nancy J. Hirschmann Pdf

A groundbreaking volume from leading scholars exploring disability studies using a political theory approach.

Author : John Swain,Maureen Gillman,Sally French
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Barrier-free design
ISBN : 1861780273

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Confronting Disabled Barriers by John Swain,Maureen Gillman,Sally French Pdf

Author : Ravi Malhotra,Benjamin Isitt
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780774835268

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Disabling Barriers by Ravi Malhotra,Benjamin Isitt Pdf

Disabling Barriers analyzes issues relating to disability at different moments in Canadian and American history. In this volume, legal scholars, historians, and disability-rights activists explore how disabled people have been portrayed and treated in a variety of contexts, including within the labour market, the workers’ compensation system, the immigration process, and the legal system (both as litigants and as lawyers). The contributors encourage us to rethink our understanding of both the systemic barriers disabled people face and the capacity of disabled people to transform their environment by changing the discourse surrounding disablement.

Author : Karen J. Ripoll-Núñez,Anna Laura Comunian,Carrie M. Brown
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781612335711

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Expanding Horizons by Karen J. Ripoll-Núñez,Anna Laura Comunian,Carrie M. Brown Pdf

Expanding Horizons: Current Research on Interpersonal Acceptance offers readers an outstanding collection of papers that reflects current trends in research on interpersonal acceptance. Papers in this volume cover a variety of questions and topics with regard to issues of acceptance-rejection by significant figures in parent-child, sibling, peer, and adult intimate relationships. Also, several papers deal with the implications of interpersonal acceptance for the development and educational achievement of children, college students, as well as children with special needs. Lastly, an entire section of the book is devoted to methodological issues in the evaluation of interpersonal acceptance across cultures. The authors draw on the perspectives of different disciplines such as educational psychology, anthropology, sociology, developmental psychology, and family studies. Research findings discussed in this collection of papers have important implications for professionals working in different contexts to strengthen family relationships, teacher and peer relationships in schools, and couple relationships. As such, the book constitutes a useful reference source for graduate students, academic researchers, clinicians, teachers, special educators, school counselors, and service agencies. Scholars who contributed to this book come from different parts of the world, including the Americas, Asia, Australia, Europe, and the Middle East.

Author : Mary Quirke,Conor Mc Guckin,Patricia McCarthy
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000895124

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Adopting a UDL Attitude within Academia by Mary Quirke,Conor Mc Guckin,Patricia McCarthy Pdf

Adopting a UDL Attitude within Academia bridges the gap between the theory and practice of UDL (Universal Design for Learning). It guides the reader through the origins of the development of UDL as an innovative way of thinking about inclusion and the evolution of this theory into practice, as it explores UDL and its relevance beyond the classroom. Including reader-friendly descriptions and case studies supplemented with international research, this book allows the reader to think and see through a UDL lens, ultimately emphasising their part in the inclusion agenda. From the outset this book shares the attitude necessary to promote UDL and inclusion across higher education and addresses some of the most common questions: Is this a scientific theory or just a new practice, and why is it important? How can I be more inclusive in my current practice? Is it sustainable and how do I ensure I’m implementing it correctly? The book will have a broad appeal and is essential reading for anyone looking to understand and implement UDL across their learning environment – be it a university or any education institution.