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"Everyone Is Normal, and Everyone Has a Disability": Narratives of University Students with Visual Impairment
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Abstract University students with visual impairment in Israel and worldwide face multiple academic and social barriers and must develop techniques, strategies and skills to adjust to the university environment. The current article is based on a longitudinal qualitative study aimed at incorporating students' ... mehr
University students with visual impairment in Israel and worldwide face multiple academic and social barriers and must develop techniques, strategies and skills to adjust to the university environment. The current article is based on a longitudinal qualitative study aimed at incorporating students' voices and offers some insight into the ways students experience their academic journeys. The research method combined grounded theory with the emancipatory disability research paradigm, which draws explicitly from people with disabilities' collective experience and thus directly challenges this group's widespread social oppression. This combination allowed the researcher to focus on students' initial experiences as subjectively perceived. Sixteen students all defined as legally blind, from four universities in Israel, were interviewed over a 2-year period of their studies. The findings present two complementary narratives the interviewees used while configuring their identities. The article will focus on findings that suggest that during their academic journeys, students needed to manage a process of integrating their identity both as disabled and as students, choosing when and where to perform each identity and determining what the implications of each choice were along with each one’s related costs and benefits. The study’s implications and recommendations can help professionals and support services improve inclusion and equality in higher education.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Hochschulbildung; Behinderung; Identität; Student; Sehbehinderung; Benachteiligung; Inklusion; Gleichstellung; Israel
Klassifikation
soziale Probleme
Bildungswesen tertiärer Bereich
Freie Schlagwörter
disability studies
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2018
Seitenangabe
S. 218-229
Zeitschriftentitel
Social Inclusion, 6 (2018) 4
Heftthema
Students with Disabilities in Higher Education
ISSN
2183-2803
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)