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Module Offerings

6212EDSTUD-JAN-MTP

Aims

This module aims to develop students’ understanding of the varying meanings and experiences of disability and impairment globally and critically explore international comparative frameworks of inclusion.

Learning Outcomes

1.
Critically evaluate the commonalities and differences in relation to understandings of disability and impairment internationally
2.
Critically assess the ways in which definitions and models of disability and inclusion have been devised, understood and implemented internationally in relation to key educational policy, legislation and provision

Module Content

Outline Syllabus:Case study examples of definitions, understandings and experiences of disability and impairment in majority and minority world nations Models of disability (e.g. the British Social Model of Disability and the Nordic Relational Model of Disability) and their impact globally National and International Disabled People's Movements, Human Rights Organisations and Disability Activism (e.g. The Disabled People’s International and Disability Awareness in Action) Disability, Industrialisation and Globalisation Disability, Poverty and Social Exclusion Disability and Post-colonialism Inclusion as an intercultural and interdisciplinary process National and International inclusive educational policy, legislation and practice Current international debates in inclusive education
Module Overview:
This module aims to develop your understanding of the varying meanings and experiences of disability and impairment globally. You will critically explore international comparative frameworks of inclusion. It also enables you to assess the role that global forces have played in shaping these perspectives and understandings of disability, especially in relation to key inclusive educational policy and legislation.
Additional Information:This module enables students to consider global perspectives and definitions of disability, impairment and inclusion from past to present. It also enables students to assess the role that global forces have played in shaping these perspectives and understandings of disability especially in relation to key inclusive educational policy and legislation.

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