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Direct linkGessner, Ingrid – Studies in the Education of Adults, 2016
The incorporation of cultural productions and virtual experiences in museum spaces adds to the objects' significance and also turns them into important contributions to adult education. Yet, how far do they trouble, decolonise, revisualise, tell alternative stories, interrogate intolerance and privilege or stimulate critical literacies? This…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Museums, Teaching Methods, Japanese Americans
McConkey, Roy; Keogh, Fiona; Bunting, Brendan; Garcia Iriarte, Edurne; Watson, Sheelah Flatman – Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 2016
Internationally the relocation of people with intellectual disability from institutions has brought significant gains to their quality of life. This study contrasted three groups of persons in Ireland who moved either to personalized arrangements (n = 29) or to community group homes (n = 31) with those who remained in congregated settings awaiting…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Patients, Institutionalized Persons, Placement
Gascon, Hubert; Morin, Pierre – Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 2010
During the past twenty years, an important body of research has examined the different impacts of deinstitutionalisation on the adaptation and quality of life of persons with intellectual disabilities. This empirical study was conducted with 136 persons with intellectual disabilities following the closure of the Hopital Saint-Julien (Quebec,…
Descriptors: Mental Retardation, Quality of Life, Mental Health, Foreign Countries
Bigby, Christine – Journal of Policy and Practice in Intellectual Disabilities, 2006
The closure of institutions and relocation of people with intellectual disabilities to community living has been the focus of many nations' intellectual disability policies in the past three decades. The author studied the relocation of 58 people from a large institution to 11 small group homes in several Australian communities. Organizational…
Descriptors: Community Development, Employment Practices, Privatization, Mental Retardation
