Disability, Human Rights And Education
1st Edition
Published on 1. October 1999
256 pages
978-0-335-23053-2 (ISBN)
Description
This book recognizes the importance of an informed cross-cultural understanding of the policies and practices of different societies within the field of disability, human rights and education. It represents an attempt to critically engage with issues arising from the historical and contemporary domination of portrayals of 'the western' as advanced, democratic and exemplary, in contrast to the construction of the 'rest of the world' as backward, primitive and inferior in these fundamental areas.
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Felicity Armstrong | Len Barton
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Content
- Front cover
- Half title
- Series title
- Title page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Notes on contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Disabled people's quest for social justice in Zimbabwe
- Chapter 2 Human rights and the struggle for inclusive education in Trinidad and Tobago
- Chapter 3 Headlights on full beam: disability and education in Hong Kong
- Chapter 4 Human rights and inclusive education in China: a Western perspective
- Chapter 5 Rights and disabilities in educational provision in Pakistan and Bangladesh: roots, rhetoric, reality
- Chapter 6 Inclusive education in Canada: a piece in the equality puzzle
- Chapter 7 Disability, human rights and education: the United States
- Chapter 8 Special education and human rights in Australia: how do we know about disablement, and what does it mean for educators?
- Chapter 9 Educational opportunities and polysemic notions of equality in France
- Chapter 10 Experience-near perspectives on disabled people's rights in Sweden
- Chapter 11 Equality and full participation for all? School practices and special education/integration in Greece
- Chapter 12 Disability, human rights and education in Cyprus Helen Phtiaka
- Chapter 13 Disability, human rights and education in Romania
- Chapter 14 'Is there anyone there concerned with human rights?' Cross-cultural connections, disability and the struggle for change in England
- Index
- Back cover
