Dissertation
Schooling for All?: A History of the Educational Opportunities for Children with Disabilities in Queensland, 1945-1973
University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Doctor of Philosophy, University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.25907/00111
Abstract
Histories of education frequently render people with disabilities invisible and histories of disabilities often focus on only a single category of impairment. There are relatively few studies that combine history, education and disabilities. This thesis seeks to challenge and extend the current historiography by adopting cross-disability and critical recovery and analysis approaches to explore the educational opportunities for and experiences of children with disabilities in Queensland in the years 1945 to 1973.
Those opportunities and experiences for children with disabilities were far more diverse than previous studies have indicated. These children were not and are not a uniform group. They variously accessed learning opportunities in residential institutions, in classes and schools designed for particular cohorts of children with particular disabilities, in hospitals, in mainstream schools and through distance education. Some children were labelled ‘ineducable’ and excluded from formal schooling, others were restricted to segregated schools and some denied that they were disabled and flourished at state primary and secondary schools.
Details
- Title
- Schooling for All?: A History of the Educational Opportunities for Children with Disabilities in Queensland, 1945-1973
- Authors
- Penelope Harrison
- Contributors
- Joanne Scott (Supervisor) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Office of the Pro Vice-Chancellor (Global & Engagement)
- Awarding institution
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
- Degree awarded
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Publisher
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
- DOI
- 10.25907/00111
- Organisation Unit
- School of Health - Nursing; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Nursing, Midwifery and Paramedicine - Legacy; Office of the Pro Vice-Chancellor (Global & Engagement); School of Law and Society
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99591508702621
- Output Type
- Dissertation
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