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Disability and Popular Common Sense in India: Noun versus Adjective
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Shahid, Mohd; Raza, Md. Shahid; Alam, Md. Aftab – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2016
Reflecting through the Indian experiences, a brief attempt is made to explore how disability as a noun takes shape in popular common sense "call names" (adjectives) and how does the popular common sense legitimise and normalise the oppressive language and the oppressed reality of the persons with disabilities? In the Indian context, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Nouns, Form Classes (Languages), Disabilities
Depictions of Human Bodies in the Illustrations of Early Childhood Textbooks
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Martínez-Bello, Vladimir E.; Martínez-Bello, Daniel A. – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2016
In many Ibero-American countries children in the early childhood education (ECE) system have the opportunity to interact with textbooks on a regular basis. The powerful social function of textbooks in socializing children in primary and secondary school, and in legitimizing what counts as cultural norms and officially sanctioned values and…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Textbooks, Human Body, Developing Nations
Not Just a Game
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Stanistreet, Paul – Adults Learning, 2005
In this article, the author talks about Everton Football Club's Football in the Community programme, a disability football programme in the UK that helps disabled people come out of their shells and play an active role in life. Everton's disability football programme is about getting disabled people in, giving them help in moving on to take…
Descriptors: Team Sports, Disabilities, Disability Discrimination, Foreign Countries
Preparing for Contact between Mainstream Pupils and Their Counterparts Who Have Severe and Profound and Multiple Learning Disabilities.
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Shevlin, Michael – British Journal of Special Education, 2003
This article describes an Irish video program that prepares mainstream students to meet incoming peers with severe, profound, and multiple disabilities, finding that students reacted positively to the video and found it helped relieve their anxieties at the prospect of contact. Implications for further development of structured contact sessions in…
Descriptors: Disability Discrimination, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Multiple Disabilities
Transition Experiences of Disabled Young People
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Piggott, Linda; Houghton, Ann-Marie – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2007
This paper outlines the changing employment climate and shift in attitudes towards disabled people who are expected to become economically active in order to fulfill their role as responsible citizens. We briefly describe the employment profile of disabled people and reiterate the combination of factors identified in shaping progression into the…
Descriptors: Employment, Disabilities, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Interviews
Disability, Work and Cash Benefits.
Mashaw, Jerry L., Ed.; And Others – 1996
This book contains 13 papers from a workshop convened to explore the causes of work disability and the types of interventions that might enable individuals to remain at work, return to work, or enter the work force for the first time, despite having chronic health conditions or impairments. Following an overview of the papers by editors Jerry L.…
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Adaptive Behavior (of Disabled), Adults, Assistive Devices (for Disabled)