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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"dis/abilities"”.
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Educational experiences of first generation Black African students with and without dis/abilities
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Marked Superheroes and Villains: 21st Century Embodied Rhetorics of (Dis)Abilities and (Hyper)Masculinity
… Character Evolution, and Mental and Emotional Dis/Abilities</p> <p>III. Savage! Vanished! Appropriated!: Misrepresentations of Native Americans in Green Arrow</p>
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Navigating the U.S. Educational System: Perspectives of Kenyan Immigrant Students labelled with Dis/abilities and their Families
… colonial violence and oppression. This dissertation empirically examines the phenomenological experiences of eleven Black Kenyan immigrant students labelled with dis/abilities and seven Black Kenyan immigrant mothers about their experiences with the U.S educational system. I explore the …
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Because I Am Human: Centering Black Women with Dis/abilities in Transition Planning from High School to College
… transition experiences of Black women with dis/abilities (BWD). In this qualitative study, I explore transition experiences of five post-secondary BWD from high school to college in order to privilege her chronicles and narratives as knowledge. In addition, two urban public high school …
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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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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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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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Combating the Banality of Evil: Portrayals of the Literary Female Villain in Günter Grass's Danziger Trilogie and Novella, Im Krebsgang.
… essentially, a woman's natural attributes and (dis)abilities and the conventions of society have enforced her historical submission to man. This thesis analyzes how the antagonistic female type, or villain, compares and contrasts with other female figures in these works by Grass, according to a …
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How to be a superhero: stories of creating a culture of inclusion through theatre
… investigates the use of Inclusive theatre to disengage the ‘disabled'/ ‘non-disabled' binary for transformation to inclusive cultures. The research extends existing scholarship in Inclusive and applied theatre practices by documenting selected case studies in west and southern Africa. A …
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Philosophical enquiry and autism: story/ing/ied bags of unexpected human and more-than-human encounters in speech-language therapy and classroom spaces
… early childhood intervention and childhood dis/ability studies. The aim of the thesis is to explore the concept of ontoepistemic injustice for autistic children with/in educational and therapeutic settings. Current pedagogies and interventions are embedded in human-centric ontologies that …
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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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Expanding the Educational Enclave: A New Teacher Starting with Inclusion
… untouched at the particular school and district. Over the course of one school year, the teacher collected data on three focus students and their varying degrees of inclusion with general education peers. This ethnography is an honest reflection of failures and successes from one …