Learning to See Invisible Children: Inclusion of Children with Disabilities in Central Asia - Softcover

9786155225673: Learning to See Invisible Children: Inclusion of Children with Disabilities in Central Asia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 6155225672 ISBN 13: 9786155225673

Publisher: Central European University Press, 2013

Contains six case studies that address issues of inclusive education or social inclusion in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan. The cases raise a number of questions relating to the purpose and nature of schooling, about who should have access to schools and how such access might be negotiated. These cases also ask questions about the respective roles of policy, parents, civic society, advocacy groups, professionals, NGOs, and government agencies; how notions of disability are constructed in the region; in which way does the Soviet legacy of "defectology" still inform policy and practice today.

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About the Authors

Kate Lapham is a Senior Program Manager for the Open Society Education Support Program.

Martyn Rouse is Professor Emeritus at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland.

From the Back Cover

The volume contains six case studies that address a significant aspect or specific phenomenon in the local context of inclusive education or social inclusion in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan.

The cases raise a number of questions relating to the purpose and nature of schooling, about who should have access to schools and how such access might be negotiated. These cases also ask questions about the respective roles of policy, parents, civic society, advocacy groups, professionals, NGOs, and government agencies. It considers how notions of disability are constructed in the region. In particular it looks at some of the ways in which the Soviet legacy of "defectology" still informs policy and practice today.

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