Working Paper Series: No. 26
The aim with this study was to examine in what amount disabled children in South Africa can live a participating life in society, with focus on special needs schools and their capability to empower the children. The data material has been collected through eight qualitative interviews, and observati...ons at seven special needs schools in the country. Through my result I have distinguished three main roads to empower the children: First, to analyze social structures, secondly, to gain knowledge and awareness, and thirdly, to strengthen the children’s self-esteem. I have also analyzed the structural barriers that are hindering disabled children to participate, and illustrated this by describing social policies and their effect on special needs schools in South Africa.
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Checklist for including children with disabilities in recovery and reconstruction (English) | Checklist for recovery and reconstruction
Newsletter No. 15 | Highlighting the gender dimensions of education for children with disabilities
Guidance | Preparedness - Response and early recovery - Recovery and reconstruction
Paper commissioned for Fixing the Broken Promise of Education for All: Findings from the Global Initiative on Out-of-School Children
The State of the World’s Children 2013
ARC resource pack - Study material
Disability Inclusion | Published by Child Development & Rights and Sustainable Health on behalf of World Vision International.
Children with disabilities in South Africa: The hidden reality is part of a multiple-country study conducted by ACPF. The study seeks to analyse how cultural, social, physical and other societal barriers prevent children with disabilities from enjoying their constitutional rights to equality, freedo...m and human dignity. It also seeks to establish opportunities and practices that could be used to address these barriers to enhance disabled children’s participation in society.
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