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Carli Friedman – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2024
Social determinants of health are conditions, such as physical and social environments, which contribute to health outcomes. People with disabilities face more health inequities than their nondisabled peers, including disparities in social determinants of health. Although research indicates people with disabilities face a number of disparities…
Descriptors: Adults, Disabilities, Health Needs, Disability Discrimination
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Jinting Wu – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 2024
While China embraces disability inclusion rhetorically, segregated special schools continue to proliferate in recent decades. What kind of space are special education schools? How do actors in such spaces negotiate stigma and marginality for a better future? This research pairs historical, policy and ethnographic research to examine special…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inclusion, Rhetoric, Special Schools
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Bethan Ward; Ste Weatherhead; Beth Greenhill – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2025
Background: The Welfare Reform Act (2012) has been criticised for harming claimants, particularly through functional assessments. Although many people with intellectual disabilities in the UK receive welfare benefits, their experiences of undergoing functional assessments are under-researched. Method: Eight participants with intellectual…
Descriptors: Welfare Services, Welfare Recipients, Eligibility, Attitudes toward Disabilities
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Brett Ranon Nachman; Kirsten R. Brown – Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 2024
Representations of disabled students -- by both disabled and abled people -- are vital to disabled futures because they hold important implications for how abled people conceive of, and thereby support, disabled students. For years, scholarship on disability in postsecondary education has failed to interrogate the problematic narratives…
Descriptors: Journal Articles, Two Year Colleges, Disabilities, Attitudes toward Disabilities
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Francesca Peruzzo; Rille Raaper – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2024
Drawing on a Foucauldian theorisation and an in-depth study with eight disabled student activists in England, this paper explores how persistent marginalisation and ableism in higher education has triggered a wave of activism among disabled students, who, just before the advent of the pandemic, had organised a structured movement, Disabled…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Students with Disabilities, Student Experience
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Hill, Dave – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2022
This article focuses on a particular group in capitalist society that is disabled, demeaned and denied by capitalism itself, through processes of economic exploitation, systematic and systemic class exclusion, and discrimination/ prejudice- that is- the working class. In doing so I recognise that the working class (defined as all those who sell…
Descriptors: Social Systems, Social Class, Working Class, Disabilities
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Miranda N. Rouse – Basic Communication Course Annual, 2024
Procedures and practices that are ableist in the educational system have been long overlooked. Speakers having differing abilities than neurotypical or able-bodied individuals is often not something that is considered in basic course assessment tools. This is important to address because although there are institutional policies and procedures in…
Descriptors: Scoring Rubrics, Public Speaking, Persuasive Discourse, Attitudes toward Disabilities
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Dosun Ko; Yehyang Lee – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2024
Overrepresentation of students of color with and without dis/abilities in exclusionary practices (e.g., suspension, expulsion) is a historically accumulating educational debt that stems from the intersection of racism, ableism, and other forms of oppression. As a historical, sociopolitical, and geospatial situated issue, addressing racial…
Descriptors: Disproportionate Representation, Minority Group Students, Students with Disabilities, Inclusion
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Lakshmi Balasubramanian; Ipshita Banerjee – Remedial and Special Education, 2024
Understanding inclusive education challenges in India involves acknowledging the complex linguistic, cultural, religious, and caste-based diversity affecting marginalized groups. Ambiguity surrounds implementing the "inclusion" concept, necessitating critical evaluation and adaptation to align with India's unique dynamics. Despite…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inclusion, Cultural Context, Indians
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Kozleski, Elizabeth B.; Stepaniuk, Inna; Proffitt, William – Journal of Educational Administration, 2020
Purpose: This article focuses on the strategic importance of framing cultural changes in special education through a critical lens. The article explores why cultural responsivity must be understood from a critical perspective that accounts for the historical sedimentation of racism that exists within special education organizational policies and…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Educational Improvement, Special Education, Criticism
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Liasidou, Anastasia; Hadjiyiannakou, Anastasia – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2019
The paper aims to explore ways in which mothers of children with cerebral palsy (CP) attempt to voice their concerns about current discourses and power imbalances enshrined in special education policy and provision. Mothers' narratives are important in making transparent the multiple forms of 'disablism' experienced by them in their attempts to…
Descriptors: Special Education, Educational Policy, Mothers, Cerebral Palsy
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Van Katwyk, Trish; Zagada, Shella; Grande, Santiago – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2020
This paper is an exploration of the ways in which power is enacted and reproduced within the academy, as well as a consideration of possibilities for growth at both the personal and the institutional levels. The authors worked together in an academic setting. One of the authors is a tenured faculty member, and the other two authors were staff…
Descriptors: Power Structure, College Faculty, Neoliberalism, Altruism
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McKnight, Lucinda; Whitburn, Ben – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2017
The scientific metaphor of the lens remains widely used in qualitative education research, despite critiques of positivism. Informed by two recently completed empirical doctoral studies relying on "Metaphors We Live By," we propose that the attachment to the lens is a fetish. We argue that this fetish, evident even in purportedly…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Qualitative Research, Educational Research, Social Bias
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Rocco, Tonette S.; Delgado, Antonio – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2011
This article critiques the ways adult educators discuss disability. To enhance the discourse on disability from a critical perspective, the authors present concepts and theories from disability studies useful for a critical examination of disability in adult education. Disability should be an important concern for adult education and adult…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Disabilities