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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"disability theory"”.
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EXPERIENCES OF ENTREPRENEURS WITH DISABILITIES: A CRITICAL DISABILITY THEORY PERSPECTIVE
… available to them as they relate to both disability and entrepreneurship. The study suggests that people with disabilities need customized entrepreneurship training that focuses on developing and expanding their human capital. Furthermore, the study suggests that disability service …
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Discourse, Narrative and Agency: A Contribution of Local Stories to Disability Theory, Research and Professional Practice
… concept of agency was relevant to disability studies. In locating this study as a contribution to the knowledge of disability and disablement, the initial chapters explore the theoretical genealogy of disability studies and the methodology for the study. In broad terms this has been …
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“I’m the only one that knows what I can and can’t do.”: Shaping identities through disability accommodation discussions
… people with disabilities have when disclosing disability in the workplace for accommodations and how those experiences influenced identity formation. Utilizing a feminist disability theory framework, this project involved using semi-structured interviews with 13 people with cognitive and …
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Inclusive Education in Saskatchewan's K-12 Schools: Perspectives of People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
… K-12 education system. Grounded in critical disability theory and employing a narrative inquiry approach, this research centres the voices of people with lived experience to examine how inclusion is perceived and experienced. Ten adults with intellectual or developmental disabilities were …
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A Wisconsin charter school's enrollment and service of students with disabilities
… single-case study, grounded in Critical Disability Theory and the transformative paradigm, explores inclusive education within a Wisconsin charter school. It examines the strategies and insights that foster meaningful inclusion, moving beyond surface-level metrics to highlight the …
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A Political Theory of Accessibility and Care for Animals
… This dissertation applies care ethics and disability theory to the political agency debate about animals to show how the institution of animal care can be democratized. Its aim is twofold: (1) to crip the political agency debate, and (2) to introduce a care turn in animal politics. I …
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"SED NEQUE SILENTIO PRETEREUNDUM": AN ANALYSIS OF THE MIRACLES OF SAINT WILLIAM OF NORWICH
… about the pilgrims who visited his tomb. Using disability theory, this thesis analyzes eighty medical miracles performed by the boy saint. I begin by categorizing and analyzing the miracles according to the impairments that the pilgrims suffered. Because the cures took place within the social …
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This disabled body: an authoethnographic study of disability in post apartheid South Africa
Disability lies at the heart of a complex framework of knowledge and identity in post-apartheid South Africa. In this autoethnographic study, personal reflections on my history as a queer, Black, physically disabled individual are retold and compared to her current personal narratives to answer …
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How has Western detective fiction represented and othered marginalized groups such as Asians, women and people with disabilities, how does that fiction relate to Indian detective fiction, and how might that dynamic be subverted through my experimental creative work, Sounds & Shadows: Casebook of the Blind PI?
… via the theoretical approaches of post-colonial theory, feminist theory, disability theory and the intersectional approach of post-colonial disability theory and praxis. Central to the research is my experimental creative work of detective fiction, Sounds & Shadows: Casebook of the Blind PI, …
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Drawing the Line: Visible and Invisible Disability, Identity, and Intersectionality in Award-Winning Graphic Novels for Teens
… study examines the complex social phenomenon of disability representation in teen literature, specifically the Great Graphic Novels for Teens list from the American Library Association. The tenets of critical disability theory guided a critical analysis of both text and imagery to explore how …
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“Sugar-Baited Words": Diabetic Themes in Christina Rossetti's "Goblin Market"
… of diabetes in the Victorian period and modern disability theory to consider how language is used to describe the fruits and symptoms the characters possess, this reading of “Goblin Market” explores the social attitude towards diabetes and examines the importance of care communities for those …
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Stakeholders' perceptions on how schools influence the career development of learners with intellectual disabilities
… and principals’ perceptions about intellectual disability and its influence on career development. The Critical Disability Theory guided this study as it was aimed at discovering the factors which influence the implementation of career development in schools. A qualitative approach was followed …
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Containing the Blemmye: Anxiety Towards Congenital Difference in the Old English Wonders of the East
… difference by applying a lens of critical disability theory to the Old English <em>Wonders of the East</em>, primarily<em> </em>as it survives in the eleventh-century manuscript, London, British Library, Cotton MS Tiberius B.v. This thesis focuses on the textual and illustrative …
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Synthetic Solidarities: Theorizing Queer Affectivity and Trans*national/temporal Emulsification as Embodied Resistance to Global Capitalism
… transdisciplinarity to be a part of the praxis/theory of cultivating such synthetic solidarities that confound the structures of capital-space-time. As such, I (gender)fuck with genre, and format throughout, interweaving theoretical and autotheoretical writing with prose, poetics, and altered …
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Enabling the Great War: Ex-Servicemen, the Mixed Economy of Welfare and the Social Construction of Disability, 1899-1930
… World War. Dealing with the enormity of war time disability put great strain on medical and financial resources and forced the British government to reassess, and radically alter its responsibilities towards disability in Britain. The crisis of war highlighted existing inadequacies in care for the …
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Dance and Dramatherapy providing a Facilitating Environment for the Physically Disabled
… and from whom data was collected and how the theory emerged from the data. Data collection strategies include: The recording of observations of participant and myself as therapist, group Interviews, video tape recordings, and staff interviews. The work under discussion will be informed within …
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Ballast lives: an excursus on socio-political accounts of disablement in the age of globalization
… exemplified by Mike Oliver's 'Social Model of Disability'. Despite the influence of a socio-political account amongst the activist disability movement, dominant ideology ensures that such pioneering ideas are subject to unrelenting disparagement and disinformation. Despite such ridicule, this …
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Higher education disability professionals perceptions on transition processes for college freshmen with autism spectrum disorders
… analyze the perceptions of 14 higher education disability professions (HEDPs) from 4-year public universities in Michigan regarding the transition process for students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) from secondary to postsecondary institutions. A phenomenological analysis approach was used …
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Situating Creativity: Developing a Non-Cartesian Approach to the Creative Process
… science, science and technology studies, disability theory, and situated action theory, I argue that to better understand creativity, we must consider the creative process as it occurs within particular social and material environments, as it is distributed across diverse networks of …
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Figuring Disability and Illness: D. H. Lawrence’s Masculine Somatology
… of the male body from both a social model of disability and a biographical perspective. In so doing, the thesis contributes a fresh approach to Lawrence studies while at the same time fostering critical and creative reflections on the relatively new field of literary disability studies. …
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