Childhood Disability, Advocacy, and Inclusion in the Caribbean (eBook)

A Trinidad and Tobago Case Study

Beth Harry (Autor)

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2019 | 1st ed. 2020
XXIII, 283 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-23858-2 (ISBN)

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This book presents an ethnographic case study of the personal motivations, advocacy, and activation of social capital needed to create and sustain the Immortelle Children's Centre, a private school that has served children with disabilities in Trinidad/Tobago for four decades. Based on narratives by parents from the 1980's, current parents, teachers, community advocates, and the author, who was the founder of Immortelle in 1978, the study views the school within the context of a nation standing in a liminal space between developed and developing societies. It argues that the attainment of equity for children with disabilities will require an agenda that includes a legal mandate for education of all children, increased public funding for education, health and therapeutic services, and an on-going public awareness campaign. Relating this study to the global debate on inclusion, the author shows how the implementation of this agenda would have to be adapted to the social, cultural, and economic realities of the society.

Beth Harry is Professor of Special Education at the Department of Teaching and Learning, University of Miami, USA.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.10.2019
• Reihe/Serie: Palgrave Studies in Disability and International Development
• Reihe/Serie: Palgrave Studies in Disability and International Development
• Zusatzinfo: XXIII, 283 p. 22 illus., 21 illus. in color.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: Caribbean • Cerebral palsy • Childhood Disability • Development Policy • disability and poverty • Disability Education • global South • LATIN AMERICAN POLITICS • Trinidad • Trinidad and Tobago
• ISBN-10: 3-030-23858-X / 303023858X
• ISBN-13: 978-3-030-23858-2 / 9783030238582