Disability Policy Representation in African Higher Education Research
Implications for Disability Policy Framing in African Higher Education
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https://doi.org/10.32674/jcihe.v12iFall.1224Keywords:
Disability, Higher Education, Policy, FramingAbstract
This paper sets out to critically explore the way disability policies are framed in African higher education. Presented in this paper is a review of published studies that detail the dominant framing perspectives that have influenced disability policies in African Higher Education (HE). Review of literature was done using the Yair Levy and Timothy J. Ellis (2006) systems approach to conducting an effective literature review. The paper has three sections and these include (a) an introduction (b) dominant policy framing perspectives (c) and a discussion on exploring possibilities for an expansive disability policy framing for Higher Education in Africa.This paper argues for nuanced ways to expand our understanding of the current and emerging issues pertaining to the study of policies on disability in the field of HE in Africa.
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Adebayo Olukoshi and Paul Tiyambe Zeleza .2004. The African University in the Twenty-first Century, in P.T. Zeleza &A. Olukoshi (Eds) African Universities in the Twenty-first Century, Volume II: knowledge and society, pp. 595-617. Dakar, Senegal: Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa.
Babra Fawcett 2000. Ferminist perspectives on disability. Pearson Education Limited
Benedicte Ingstad, and Susan Reynolds Whyte.1995. Disability and Culture, Berkeley: University of California Press. Jomtien Conference (1990) World Declaration on Education for all, Spain.
Carolyn D Roper and Marilyn A Hirth 2005. “A History of Change in the Third Mission of Higher Education: The Evolution of One-way Service to Interactive Engagement.” Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, [S.l.], p. 3-21, apr. 2005. ISSN 2164-8212. Available at: <http://openjournals.libs.uga.edu/index.php/jheoe/article/view/380/354>.
Christopher J Johnstone and David W Chapman 2009. Contributions and constraints to the implementation of inclusive education in Lesotho: International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, v. 56, p. 131-148.
David Johnstone 2001 An introduction to disability studies, David Fulton Publishers. Second edition, London.
Dimitris Anastasiou and James M Kauffman. 2013. “The Social Model of Disability: Dichotomy between Impairment and Disability”. Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 38 (4):441-459.
Ellen A Brantlinger 1997. Using ideology: Cases of non-recognition of the politics of research and
practice in special education. Review of Educational Research, 67(4).
Emma Stone. (Ed.). 1999. Disability and development: Learning from action and research on disability in the majority world. The Disability Press. Leeds
Felicity Armstrong and Len Barton. 1999. Is There Anyone There Concerned with Human Rights? Cross-Cultural Connections, Disability and the Struggle for Change in England. In disability, human rights and education: Cross cultural perspectives, edited by F. Armstrong and L. Barton, 210–229. Milton Keynes: Open University Press
Gregor Wolbring. 2009 "Disability". <http://www.bookrags.com/research/disability-este-0001_0002_0/sect3.html
Hulst Merlijn van, and Dvora Yanow. “From Policy ‘Frames’ to ‘Framing’: Theorizing a More Dynamic, Political Approach.” The American Review of Public Administration 46, no. 1 (January 2016): 92–112. doi:10.1177/0275074014533142
James M Kauffman and Gary M Sasso. 2006. Toward ending cultural and cognitive relativism in
special education. Exceptionality, 14(2).
James Mahoney and Rueschemeyer Dietrich. 2003. Comparative Historical Analysis in
the Social Sciences. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Julie E, Allan. 1996. Foucault and special educational needs: A “box of tools” for analysing children’s
experiences of mainstreaming. Disability and Society, 11(2).
Knowledge Rojohane Matshedisho. 2007. “Access to Higher Education for Disabled Students in South Africa: a contradictory conjuncture of benevolence, rights and the social model of disability.” Disability and Society, 22(7),685-699. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09687590701659535.
Louise Morley and Alison Croft, A. 2011. “Agency and Advocacy: Disabled Students in Higher Education in Ghana and Tanzania.” Research in Comparative and International Education 6(4), 383-399
M Burry 2000. “A comment on the ICIDH2.” Disability and Society, 15, 1073–1077. doi: 10.1080 /713662025
Mariela Fordyce, Sheila Riddell, Rachel O’Neill, and Elisabeth Weedon. 2013. Post-School Transitions of People Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing. Final report. Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh. http://www.docs.hss.ed.ac.uk/education/creid/Reports/30i_NDCS_PostSchTransit_InterimRpt.pdf
Norman K Denzin and Yvonna S Lincoln 2018. Introduction: The discipline and practice of qualitative research. In N. K. Denzin & Y. S. Lincoln (Eds.), The SAGE handbook of qualitative research. London: SAGE
Norad. 2012. Mainstreaming disability in the new development paradigm. Oslo: Norad Evaluation Department.
Oliver Mike.1990. The Individual and Social Models of Disability. Paper presented at Joint Workshop of the Living Options Group and the Research Unit of the Royal College of Physicians on People with established locomotor disabilities in hospitals, http://www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies/archiveuk/Oliver/in%20soc%20dis.pdf
Oliver Mutanga. 2017. “Inclusion of Students with Disabilities in South African Higher Education.” International Journal of Disability, Development and Education.
Oliver Mutanga. 2017. “Students with disabilities’ experience in South African higher education: a synthesis of literature.” South African Journal of Higher Education, 31(1): 135-155.
Oliver Mutanga and Melanie Walker.2017. “Exploration of the academic lives of students with disabilities at South African universities: Lecturers’ perspectives.”. African Journal of Disabilities, 6(0), a316. https://doi.org/10.4102/ajod.v6i0.316.
Paige Jeffery. 1999. “Conjuncture, Comparison, and Conditional Theory in Macrosocial
Inquiry.” American Journal of Sociology. 105(3): 781-800.
Peter Mutswanga. 2014. “An Exploration of the Inclusivity of Universities to People with Hearing Impairment in Zimbabwe.” The International Journal of Humanities & Social Studies Vol 2, Issue 9: 322-330
Philip M Ferguson and Emily Nussbaum. 2012. “Disability Studies: What Is It and What Difference Does It Make?” Research & Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities, 37(2), 70 - 80.
Pliner Susan.M and Johnson Julia R. 2004. “Historical, theoretical, and foundational principles of universal instructional design in higher education.” Equity and Excellence in Education, 37(2) 105-137.
Powell Abigail and Sang Kate.2013. “Equality, diversity and inclusion in the construction industry”. Construction Management and Economics, vol. 31, pp. 795 - 801, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01446193.2013.837263
Rob Imrie 2004. “Demystifying disability: a review of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health.” Sociology of Health and Illness, 26(3), 287–305
Robert B Edgerton. 1993.The Cloak of competence, revised and updated. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Robert Chimedza 2008. Disability and Inclusive Education in Zimbabwe. In: Barton L., Armstrong F. (eds) Policy, Experience and Change: Cross-Cultural Reflections on Inclusive Education. Inclusive Education: Cross Cultural Perspectives, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5119-7_9
Roy A Bhaskar & Berth Danermark 2006. Metatheory, Interdisciplinary and Disability Research: A Critical Realist Approach. Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 8, 278-297.
https://doi.org/10.1080/15017410600914329
Saleeby Welch. 2007. “Applications of a Capability Approach to Disability and the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) in Social Work Practice”. Journal of Social Work in Disability & Rehabilitation, 6(1/2):217-232.
Spratt Jennifer and Florian Lanni. 2015. “Inclusive pedagogy: From learning to action. Supporting each individual in the context of ‘everybody.” Teaching and Teacher Education, 49, 89–96.
Sophie Mitra. 2006. “The capability approach and disability.” Journal of Disability Policy Studies, 16, 236–247
Susan L Kasser and Rebecca K. Lytle. 2005. Inclusive physical activity: a lifetime of opportunities. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics.
Thomas David and Woods Honour. 2003. Working with People with Learning Disabilities. New York: Jessica Kingsley Publish
Trent James. W.1994. Inventing the feeble mind. A History of Mental Retardation in the United States, Berkeley: University California Press.
Tsitsi Chataika 2010. Inclusion of Disabled Students in Higher Education in Zimbabwe, in J. Lavia & M. Moore (Eds) Cross-cultural Perspectives on Policy and Practice: decolonizing community contexts, pp. 116-131. New York: Routledge.
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Disability Policy Representation in African Higher Education Research: Implications for Disability Policy Framing in African Higher Education. (2020). Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education, 12(Fall), 169-187. https://doi.org/10.32674/jcihe.v12iFall.1224
