Educational Achievement and Psychosocial Transition in Visually Impaired Adolescents
Studies from India
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Beschreibung
This book provides a fresh approach to studies on adolescents with visual impairment. It threads through the three elements of disability (visual impairment), psychosocial development of adolescents, and their educational achievement. It highlights how these concepts traverse across and cast an irrefutable impact on each other. The author prepares the ground by highlighting the failure of existing theories of disability studies in addressing issues concerning adolescents. She further critiques the psycho-medical approach to disability which undermines or disregards its social construction. The book provides an analysis of numerous issues affecting the psychosocial development of adolescents with visual impairment, which is further validated through narratives in educational settings. It also strongly advocates the need to create awareness about the basic ethics of human relationships and rights, moral consciousness and social and civic responsibilities, which can play a vital role in ensuring healthy psychosocial development of adolescents with visual impairment, and in ensuring inclusion.
Argues that many aspects of disability in general and visual impairment in specific are socially constructed
Furthers research on adolescence and youth by including original work on disabled adolescents
Adds important original perspectives to the growing field of disability research in the global South
Argues that many aspects of disability in general and visual impairment in specific are socially constructed Furthers research on adolescence and youth by including original work on disabled adolescents Adds important original perspectives to the growing field of disability research in the global South Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Autor*in
Ranjita Dawn
Themen in »Educational Achievement and Psychosocial Transition in Visually Impaired Adolescents«
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