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Gregorius, Stefanie (2016) 'Exploring narratives of education: disabled young people’s experiences of educational institutions in Ghana'. Disability & Society, Vol 31, Issue 3, pp. 322-338.
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Abstract
Disabled young people in many low and middle-income countries experience significant levels of educational exclusion due to disabling social and physical environments and are more likely to be illiterate than their non-disabled peers. Most social sciences and development literature, however, tends to homogenise the educational trajectories of disabled young people and focuses predominantly on the perspectives of educationalists, development experts and carers in assessing educational needs and institutions. Consequently, the experiences of young people across multiple categories of social difference, and their agency in shaping their own educational trajectories, remain largely unknown. This article contributes to filling this gap by exploring the educational narratives of young people with different impairments in mainstream, special and integrated schools in Ghana. The article shows how exploring individual narratives provides new insights into the educational needs of and ‘appropriate’ education for disabled young people in the Global South.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | W General Medicine. Health Professions > Health Services. Patients and Patient Advocacy > W 85 Patients. Attitude and compliance WA Public Health > WA 18 Education WA Public Health > Health Problems of Special Population Groups > WA 395 Health in developing countries WS Pediatrics > By Age Groups > WS 460 Adolescence (General) |
| Faculty: Department: | Clinical Sciences & International Health > International Public Health Department |
| Digital Object Identifer (DOI): | https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2016.1167672 |
| Depositing User: | Rachel Dominguez |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Aug 2016 09:37 |
| Last Modified: | 28 Oct 2017 01:02 |
| URI: | https://archive.lstmed.ac.uk/id/eprint/5990 |
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