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The Routledge International Handbook for Children’s Rights and Disability
No full textThis handbook provides authoritative and cutting-edge analyses of various aspects of the rights and lives of disabled children around the world. Taking the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child (CRC) as conceptual frameworks, this work appraises the current state of affairs concerning the rights of disabled children across different stages of childhood, different life domains and different sociocultural contexts. Divided into four sections • Legislation and Policy • Children’s Voice • The Life Course in Childhood • Life Domains in Childhood and comprising 37 newly-commissioned chapters featuring analyses of UN documents and case-studies from Australia, Brazil, Ethiopia, Hong Kong, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Papua New Guinea, Serbia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, the United States and Vanuatu, its multidisciplinary approach reflects the complexities of the lives of disabled children and the multifarious nature of the strategies needed to ensure that their rights are upheld
PARTICIPATION OF DISABLED CHILDREN IN HEALTH GUIDELINES DEVELOPMENT
No full textThe chapter starts by showing how, from Articles 12 and 24 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and Articles 12 and 25 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, we can derive a fundamental right of disabled children to be involved in health guidelines development. It then analyses the barriers disabled children face in exercising this right, drawing on projects and empirical studies from the Netherlands and the UK. Finally, it brings together human rights and empirical insights to identify the necessary steps to enhance disabled children’s participation in the development of health guidelines.</p
An analysis of the UNCRPD concluding observations on the rights of children with disabilities
No full textWho is Worthy of Rights?:An analysis of children living at the intersections of disability, citizenship and migration in the United States and Italy
Get PDFEfforts towards disability rights have largely failed to address the experiences of those living at the intersection of disability, citizenship, and migration. The authors draw upon multiple qualitative case studies carried out in Italy and in the US and interpreted through the social model of disability and the Disability Critical Race Theory in Education framework, to explore this intersection. They consider the extent to which national jurisdictions distribute children’s disability rights according to citizenship and migratory status. Findings from Italy and the US highlight that disabled migrant children experience barriers to quality multilingual inclusive education and access to relevant services
An analysis of the UNCRPD concluding observations on the rights of children with disabilities
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
A qualitative study of the self-advocacy movement for people with the label 'intellectual disability' in Malta
No full textThe history of self-advocacy of people with intellectual disability in Malta is quite recent, with the first formal initiative being taken in 2003, by the National Commission Persons with Disability (KNPD). This thesis investigates the development of these initiatives within the Maltese context. It takes a social constructionist approach in order to investigate how the label 'intellectual disability' is understood by people with intellectual disability and by those who play key roles in their lives; to explore the principal forces that impinge on the lives of people with intellectual disability in Malta; and to reflect upon the key aims and objectives of the self-advocacy movement in Malta. The research plan involved monthly meetings, over a two-year period, of the KNPD Consultative Committee of People with Intellectual Disability (KCC), of which I am a support member; individual interviews with the twelve KCC members; and interviews with the representatives of nineteen organisations working with people with intellectual disability in Malta. Through the analysis of the discourse and data generated through the research, it is shown that while the respondents attend to the factors that socially construct the label 'intellectual disability', there is rarely a clear-cut distinction between, on the one hand, an understanding of the label based on the social model and, on the other, an understanding that is grounded in notions of individual impairment and deficit. Consequently, obstacles that people with intellectual disability encounter which are of social origin are not always explicitly acknowledged, especially the power imbalance between people with intellectual disability and the non-disabled people who play important roles in their lives. From the research conducted, which the thesis refers back to the literature in the field, it emerges that self-advocacy can provide an environment in which this power imbalance can be redressed and negative perceptions of the label 'intellectual disability' challenged. Self-advocacy, the thesis contends, allows people with intellectual disability to become more active agents in their own lives and make their voices heard. And it enables non-disabled people to listen to those voices and to create contexts in which these voices are heard and valued, and then take them fully into account when working with people with intellectual disability.EThOS - Electronic Theses Online ServiceGBUnited Kingdo
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