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Voices and Visions from Ethnoculturally Diverse Young People with Disabilities

Diverse Young People with Disabilities

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  1. Amanda Ajodhia-Andrews

    1. Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Canada

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  • This book brings the voices of six Canadian children with disabilities, particularly autism, into educational conversations about diversity, examining their narratives of personal schooling experiences and views of diversity through creative participatory research techniques
  • Drawing together the voices of a group of young Canadian people with disabilities, particularly autism, this book shares their personal schooling experiences and understandings of diversity and inclusion with the use of artistic research mediums
  • Through employing creative multi-method research techniques, this book underscores, both textually and visually, rich personal narratives from the voices of six Canadian children with disabilities, particularly autism, as they engage in conversations about their school life

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    • Amanda Ajodhia-Andrews
    Pages 1-23

  3. Inclusion, Disability, Autism, and Policy

    • Amanda Ajodhia-Andrews
    Pages 25-39

  5. Participants’ Portraits and Personal Narratives

    • Amanda Ajodhia-Andrews
    Pages 59-191

  6. Understandings of Differences

    • Amanda Ajodhia-Andrews
    Pages 193-211

  7. Sense of School Belonging

    • Amanda Ajodhia-Andrews
    Pages 213-261

  8. Intersections of Differences and Forms of Oppression

    • Amanda Ajodhia-Andrews
    Pages 263-269

  9. Research with Minoritized Disabled Young People

    • Amanda Ajodhia-Andrews
    Pages 271-275

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 277-288
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About this book

Many Canadian children from minority status groups experience long-term academic complexities, influencing their sense of school belonging and engagement. Research demonstrates children with intersecting differences of race, ethnicity, language, and disability, and those in their middle years (10–13 years old), undergo heightened academic challenges. Yet, what are children with disabilities’ personal schooling experiences, and how may these insights support inclusive learning, teaching, and sense of belonging? Within Toronto, one of the most diverse Canadian cities, this book explores the stories and experiences of six middle years children with intersecting differences of race, ethnicity, language, and disabilities (particularly autism). Through narrative and critical discourse analysis research methods the children’s views were accessed via a mosaic multi-method data collection approach, including their own photography, drawings, journal writings, imaginative story games, and interview texts. The children’s narratives illustrate their understandings of differences, learning, and inclusion. This book presents innovative insights highlighting the voices of children with disabilities as they navigate through complex issues of diversity and share how these impact their understandings and experiences of school inclusion and exclusion. The author advocates inviting the voices of children with intersecting differences into educational conversations and research processes, as they may adeptly advance areas of inclusion and diversity.
    
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Canada

    Amanda Ajodhia-Andrews

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Voices and Visions from Ethnoculturally Diverse Young People with Disabilities

  • Book Subtitle: Diverse Young People with Disabilities

  • Authors: Amanda Ajodhia-Andrews

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-235-6

  • Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: SensePublishers-Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-6300-235-6Published: 22 December 2015

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Topics: Education, general

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