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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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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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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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Burchardt, Tania – Support for Learning, 2004
This article provides an overview of the aspirations and expectations disabled teenagers form for their future education and employment and the factors which are associated with positive aspirations. After reviewing what is already known about the formation of aspirations in general, and among young disabled people in particular, Tania Burchardt…
Descriptors: Youth, Adult Education, Occupational Aspiration, Disadvantaged
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Cockram, Judith; And Others – Australia and New Zealand Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 1993
Seventeen Supreme Court Judges, District Court Judges, and Magistrates in Western Australia were surveyed to examine perceptions concerning overrepresentation of individuals with intellectual disability in the criminal justice system. The judiciary felt these individuals had several characteristics that would disadvantage them in contacts with the…
Descriptors: Court Judges, Court Litigation, Crime, Disability Discrimination