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Disability, human rights and education : cross cultural perspectives / edited by Felicity Armstrong and Len Barton.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Disability, human rights, and societyPublisher: Buckingham [England] ; Philadelphia : Open University Press, 1999Description: xi, 237 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0335204589
  • 9780335204588
  • 0335204570
  • 9780335204571
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.90816 21
LOC classification:
  • HV1568 .D568 1999
Contents:
1 Disabled people's quest for social justice in Zimbabwe / Robert Chimedza, Susan Peters 7 -- 2 Human rights and the struggle for inclusive education in Trinidad and Tobago / Ann Cheryl Namsoo, Derrick Armstrong 24 -- 3 Headlights on full beam: disability and education in Hong Kong / John Lewis 38 -- 4 Human rights and inclusive education in China: a Western perspective / Patricia Potts 54 -- 5 Rights and disabilities in educational provision in Pakistan and Bangladesh: roots, rhetoric, reality / M. Miles, Farhad Hossain 67 -- 6 Inclusive education in Canada: a piece in the equality puzzle / Marcia Rioux 87 -- 7 Disability, human rights and education: the United States / Alan Gartner, Dorothy Kerzner Lipsky 100 -- 8 Special education and human rights in Australia: how do we know about disablement, and what does it mean for educators? / Roger Slee 119 -- 9 Educational opportunities and polysemic notions of equality in France / Nathalie Belanger, Nicolas Garant 132 -- 10 Experience-near perspectives on disabled people's rights in Sweden / Anders Gustavsson 149 -- 11 Equality and full participation for all? School practices and special education/integration in Greece / Anastasia Vlachou-Balafouti 161 -- 12 Disability, human rights and education in Cyprus / Helen Phtiaka 176 -- 13 Disability, human rights and education in Romania / Michele Moore, Karen Dunn 193 -- 14 'Is there anyone there concerned with human rights?' Cross-cultural connections, disability and the struggle for change in England / Felicity Armstrong, Len Barton 210.
Summary: This volume 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1 Disabled people's quest for social justice in Zimbabwe / Robert Chimedza, Susan Peters 7 -- 2 Human rights and the struggle for inclusive education in Trinidad and Tobago / Ann Cheryl Namsoo, Derrick Armstrong 24 -- 3 Headlights on full beam: disability and education in Hong Kong / John Lewis 38 -- 4 Human rights and inclusive education in China: a Western perspective / Patricia Potts 54 -- 5 Rights and disabilities in educational provision in Pakistan and Bangladesh: roots, rhetoric, reality / M. Miles, Farhad Hossain 67 -- 6 Inclusive education in Canada: a piece in the equality puzzle / Marcia Rioux 87 -- 7 Disability, human rights and education: the United States / Alan Gartner, Dorothy Kerzner Lipsky 100 -- 8 Special education and human rights in Australia: how do we know about disablement, and what does it mean for educators? / Roger Slee 119 -- 9 Educational opportunities and polysemic notions of equality in France / Nathalie Belanger, Nicolas Garant 132 -- 10 Experience-near perspectives on disabled people's rights in Sweden / Anders Gustavsson 149 -- 11 Equality and full participation for all? School practices and special education/integration in Greece / Anastasia Vlachou-Balafouti 161 -- 12 Disability, human rights and education in Cyprus / Helen Phtiaka 176 -- 13 Disability, human rights and education in Romania / Michele Moore, Karen Dunn 193 -- 14 'Is there anyone there concerned with human rights?' Cross-cultural connections, disability and the struggle for change in England / Felicity Armstrong, Len Barton 210.

This volume 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.

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