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Childhood Disability, Advocacy, and Inclusion in the Caribbean

A Trinidad and Tobago Case Study
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This book presents an ethnographic case study of the personal motivations, advocacy, and activation of social capital needed to create and sustain the Immortelle Children’s Centre, a private school that has served children with disabilities in Trinidad/Tobago for four decades. Based on narratives by parents from the 1980’s, current parents, teachers, community advocates, and the author, who was the founder of Immortelle in 1978, the study views the school within the context of a nation standing in a liminal space between developed and developing societies. It argues that the attainment of equity for children with disabilities will require an agenda that includes a legal mandate for education of all children, increased public funding for education, health and therapeutic services, and an on-going public awareness campaign. Relating this study to the global debate on inclusion, the author shows how the implementation of this agenda would have to be adapted to the social, cultural, and economic realities of the society.

Author Biography:

Beth Harry is Professor of Special Education at the Department of Teaching and Learning, University of Miami, USA.
Release date NZ
October 18th, 2019
Author
Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
Edition
1st ed. 2020
Illustrations
21 Illustrations, color; 1 Illustrations, black and white; XXIII, 283 p. 22 illus., 21 illus. in color.
Pages
283
ISBN-13
9783030238575
Product ID
30470867

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