In this chapter, I introduce the critical campus ecology model (CCEM) to account for systems of oppression in an individual's ecosystem. Drawing insights from queer geographies and critical whiteness studies, I add "oppressive systems" as the fifth contextual system to the Process-Person-Context-Time model. Forces in the oppressive…

The subject of this article consistently develops the authorship of own lives in people with disabilities concept. With reference to the strategic framework (contextualism and systemness in particular), it constructs an AOL-PwD model. The model presents identity as a constitutive area in understanding the authorship of their own lives in people…

The concept of the "authorship of their own lives in people with disabilities" belongs to the trend which creates a positive, capable image of a person with disability in the society. The aim of this article is to relate contemporary theories which conceptualise disability in the categories of a universal human condition, natural human…

This dissertation presents an interpretative content analysis of the "Framework for Success in Postsecondary Writing." A joint publication from major professional organizations in the field of composition studies, the "Framework" articulates the principles of the field in response to assessment standards. Composition scholars,…

Background: People with intellectual disabilities at the end of life are at risk of receiving inadequate and inequitable end-of-life care. This study explores their unmet needs, opportunities for person-centred care and experiences of health service use. Methods: Qualitative interviews with 26 experienced health professionals and carers were used…

Discussions of support and intervention in undergraduate university education are dominated by discussion of attrition. This study quests more broadly in arguing that support and intervention for undergraduate students may also benefit from models of engagement and success as well as conventional risk and failure. Supporting this proposition is a…