Chapter II: Addressing Diversity Flashcards
Its purpose is to shape society’s understanding and treatment of individuals with disabilities.
Models of Disability
This model views disability as either a blessing or a curse, with notions of charity and caretaking.
Moral/Religious Model
This model sees disability as a medical problem residing in the individual, with the goal of cure, amelioration, and rehabilitation.
Biomedical/Individual Model
This model views disability as having deficits, justifying the need for rehabilitative intervention such as therapies and counseling.
Functional/Rehabilitation Model
This model emphasizes that disability is a social construct, where standards and limitations placed on specific groups of people are what disable a person
Social Model
This model focuses on the rights of individuals with disabilities and their role as duty-bearers and representatives.
Rights-based Model
It is the action or process of teaching someone, especially in a school, college in r university.
Education
What is the real goal of education?
Becoming a good person and more capable person than when you started
What did William Butler Yeats has said about education?
“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire”
What does Clough refers to as “pathology of difference”
People possess different types aptitudes and skill levels depending on standards or expectations that society ultimately dictates and holds as true
Why did special education has been regarded as “an attempt to increase the fairness of universal public education for exceptional learners”
Because there are thos with special difficulties or extraordinary abilities in learning
It is an educational practice that places students with disabilities in the general education classroom along with typically developing children under the supervision of teacher.
Inclusive education
This declaration stated that all children must hace access to complete, free, and compulsory primary education
World Declaration of Education for All
This standard set of ruls affirms each child’s right to education. It is also in this directive that the importance of providing education in integrated and general school settings was first specified.
UN standard rules on the Equalization of Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities
This statement reiterated that schools should accommodate all children, including the disabled, the gifted, and tyat marginalized
The Salamanca Statement and
Framework for Action on Speacial Needs Education.
