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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"Dis/ability"”.
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Dispositions and Dis/ability in Teacher Education: Teacher Educator Perspectives
… qualitative study explores the connection of dis/ability and dispositions in teacher education. Although dispositions have been part of contemporary teacher education discourse for over thirty years, their continued ambiguity is a source of debate and contestation (e.g., Diez, 2007; Katz & …
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An EcoJustice analysis of dis/ability: Reimagining diversity and inclusion
<p>Individuals who are labeled with dis/abilities are oppressed, marginalized, and devalued in Western industrial society. This domination is grounded in specific, historically-rooted perceptions and assumptions embedded in our language and value systems –– especially individualism and …
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Progressive (dis)ability: the experience of living with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease
… yet largely unknown. This is “Paradigm II” disability research (Olkin, 1999) that listens to the voices of those with disabilities to advocate for improved conditions, services and status in the world. Those who are disabled are empowered to speak for themselves. The researcher, too, has CMT …
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The remarkable everyday lives of people with hidden dis/ability: a material-semiotic analysis
… on conditions including autism, intellectual disability and mental health. I explore the ways they are used to establish the divisions required by diagnostic criteria in the separated health and social approaches to care. Defining conditions rather than performances has resulted in a neglect …
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Complicating understandings of dis/ability apparentness: developing a scale of dis/abled apparentness in educational settings
This research study presents the Scale of Dis/ability Apparentness in Education Settings (SDAES) to explore the complex and dynamic nature of dis/abled apparentness among college students. The study combines qualitative and quantitative data to examine five key domains: Environment, Ableism, …
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Dissecting the Dark Figure of Dis/ablist Violence: Intersectional Variations in Reporting Across Dis/ability Types
Individuals with dis/abilities are at a heightened risk for lifelong violent victimization. Although victimized by the same types of crimes as non-dis/abled individuals, a deeper examination reveals dis/abled individuals experience unique circumstances that increase opportunities for victimization …
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A Dis-Ability Perspective on the Stigmatization of Dissent: Critical Pedagogy, Critical Criminology, and Critical Animal Studies
<p>This intersectional and interdisciplinary social science qualitative dissertation in six chapters is grounded in critical research and theory for the purpose of engaged public service. This project is grounded in three formal disciplines: education, criminology, and peace and conflict studies. …
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Including dis/ability as an element of diversity in higher education: validating barriers and effective inclusion practices
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2026-05-01
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SCHOOLING AT THE INTERSECTION OF REFUGEE IDENTITY AND (DIS)ABILITY: IMPLICATIONS FROM NORTH KOREAN STUDENTS WITH REFUGEE BACKGROUNDS
… physical, emotional, or psychological disabilities or disorders in schools because of the adversity that they face and a lack of adequate resources during their refugee journey. In their relocated society, many refugee students are interpreted as having disabilities or receiving special …
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From ability to (dis)ability: a bourdieudian analysis and case study of the experiences of young adults in utilising post-16 educational provision in Northern Ireland
Young (dis)abled people are significantly under-represented throughout further and higher education settings. Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu’s social theory of habitus, capital and field, this study explores the practices of domination and oppression which have prevented young (dis)abled people from …
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Improving outcomes for multiply marginalized learners : a single instrumental case study on urban special educators' implementation of dis/ability critical race theory and the five dimensions of multicultural education.
… et al., 2019; McClellan et al., 2018). They are disproportionately referred for special education services (Abou-Rjaily & Stoddard, 2017; Hallahan et al., 2020) and are likelier to drop out of school (Bridgeland et al., 2006; Doll et al., 2013). Moreover, these challenges have long-term …
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Ability not disability: A transformative exploration of student experiences in higher education.
… why there are such low numbers of people with (dis)abilities in attendance at Irish Higher Education (AHEAD, 2017), The study explores the experiences of people with (dis)abilities as told to the researcher. These findings are reviewed within the context of the literature on Irish HE and …
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Becoming and Remaining an Activist: A Qualitative Study of Animal and Disability Rights Activism among Older Youth
… study explored seven early childhood (i.e., distal) and current (i.e., proximal) factors self-reported by older youth as being important in shaping their personal life course toward becoming and remaining involved in the animal rights movement: 1) education, 2) gender, 3) lifestyle, 4) …
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An LRE Placement Loophole: A Critical Policy Analysis of LRE Placement in Defining Disproportionality of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students in Special Education
… Children’s Education Act (2016) enabled disproportionality within LEAs by overlooking undocumented classroom removal practices, underestimating the monitoring and reporting criteria, and overlooking non-dominant cultural and linguistic groups within the Colorado community. In this …
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Narratives of women’s breast cancer experience and how this impacts on their working lives
… affect their mobility or return to work (RTW). Disabilities are sometimes hidden, for example fatigue and emotional stress may result in a loss of confidence and work ability. Few studies focus on how the structural relations of organizations impact women’s decisions to RTW after treatment. This …
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Voices from the Margin: A Qualitative Study on the Perspectives of Economically Disadvantaged, Black Students Identified as Learning Disabled
… explores the perspectives of four economically disadvantaged, Black students who have been labeled as learning disabled and placed in the Special Education program. The voices of the students interviewed are used to develop unique, first-hand understandings of the cause of disproportionality …
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Choreographing through an expanded corporeality
… to rupture the binaries of nature/culture and dis/ability through performance. These techniques establish somatic processes for sharing weight, experiencing suspension and torsion through the body and a tactile exchange with the environment and participating audience. They take shape through …
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Old Broken Crayons: Adolescent Artists with Autism in Art Education
… included varying ideas of competence, ability and struggle associated with an identity as `autistic'. In the examination of these adolescents' experiences the engagement with art making and the role of art in the lives of these artists is explored. It is shown that art functions as …
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Social Experiences of Young Adults with an Autism Spectrum Disorder: Toward an Understanding of Communication
… and pedagogical issues regarding difference and (dis)ability in research and research populations. I asked them what they thought about and wanted from their social experiences and learned that they perceive themselves as being perpetually misunderstood. I analyzed the data for potential …
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“What i see when my eyes fall out”: anticipations, intensifications, immediacies, and transitions of identity construction, affect design, and movement building in digital spaces
… and understandings of gender, race, class, and (dis)ability — by incorporating queer theory, feminist autobiography, disability justice, and narrative therapy frameworks, I recall how I have storied my life and how my life has been storied for me online over the past 20 years to curate a mad auto …
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