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- Grönvik, Lars, 1974-
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Definitions of Disability in Social Sciences : Methodological Perspectives
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This dissertation examines how disability researchers define disability. It is based on four studies. The first describes different definitions of disability in disability research. The second study is a conceptual analysis of the use of disability in a sample of disability research classics. In this study, it is evident that use of the concept is all but clear. It is concluded that especially environmentally based disability definitions would benefit from further empirical investigations. The notion that environmental factors (such as barriers) are a causal aspect of disability is rather widely accepted among disability researchers. However, it has not been empirically studied to such an extent that it is possible to construct workable theories of this relationship.The third study focuses on administrative definitions of disability and investigates the possibility of using data on disabled people that have been gathered by Swedish welfare authorities. It is concluded that rich data are available, but also that researchers must scrutinize how disability has been defined in these contexts. These authorities often start from medical understandings of disability, which may clash with contemporary understandings of disability as being environmentally based.The fourth study is a statistical analysis of the effects of different disability definitions on dependent variables. The analyses emphasize variables often included in studies of living conditions. There are major effects of choice of disability definition on the outcome in relation to such variables.The dissertation strongly rejects efforts to standardize disability definitions; different analytical purposes require different kinds of conceptualizations. Instead, the dissertation suggests that case-constructing reflexivity be conducted. Case-constructing reflexivity means that the researcher starts with a careful analysis of how disability is best defined in relation to the aims of the study, and continues by being constantly aware of how the choice of definition may affect sampling, analyses and results.
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- Hansen, J.I., et al.
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The Nordic Welfare States in Transition
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Ingår i: Intellectual Disabilities in the Nordic Welfare States. - : Høyskoleforlaget, Oslo. ; , s. 167-177
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- Heimdahl Mattson, Eva, 1945-
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The School Situation of Students with Motor Disabilities : Interaction of individual prerequisites and environmental demands
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The thesis consists of five scientific articles as well as a framework and is to a great extent based on interviews with students with motor disabilities, their parents and school personnel.The aim of the thesis is to study phenomena such as self-reliance, independence and autonomy, focusing on students of various ages and types of motor disabilities, in varying kinds of segregated and integrated school environments. The work is based on an interactional approach, and analyses how students' individual prerequisites interact with organizational and educational influences.It was found that the more segregated school system often gave priority to therapy goals, in order to develop the student's independence, i.e. the ability to manage the practical side of life. The student's development of autonomy, defined as the ability to make one's own decisions and control one's own life, was thereby subordinated, since it required knowledge of reading, writing, information-seeking, critical examination, e.g. typical educational goals.Students with less severe or less visible disabilities in integrated school systems, i. e. regular classes, were often treated in a way similar to their non-disabled peers. It was obvious that if the disability was ignored, it might lead to a minor disability developing into a significant handicap in the interaction with the surrounding school environment. The student's possibilities of influencing his/her situation were slight, and the autonomous development wa s limited. On the contrary, students with more severe disabilities in regular classes appeared to have better access to physical and educational adaptations. Their handicap thus decreased, and their opportunities of influencing their lives and developing autonomous attitudes increased.A conclusion is that the student's possibilities of developing either independence or autonomy are not necessarily decided by whether or not the system is integrated or segregated, but rather by how the organization and the methods of co-operation are realized within each system.
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- Hugemark, Agneta, 1959-, et al.
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Intersektionalitet och funktionsförmåga
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Ingår i: Bara funktionshindrad?. - Malmö : Gleerups Utbildning AB. - 9789140693624 ; , s. 13-30
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- Mallander, Ove, et al.
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Between academization and good craftmanship : The physiotherapists' ambition to professionalize in the light of the conductive education challenge
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Ingår i: Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research. - : Taylor & Francis. - 1501-7419 .- 1745-3011. ; 13:3, s. 225-238
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- During the 1990s a debate took place in Sweden concerning Conductive Education. Proponents of this method focused their critique on the role and methods of physiotherapists but this profession was not active in the debate. Instead in the medical profession came out as defenders of habilitations services and methods. Departing from sociology of the professions our objective in this article is to analyse the physiotherapists´ silence in relation to the profession’s position and its relation to the medical profession. The analysis is based on data from interviews with members of habilitation teams, key persons and documents. The relative silence of physiotherapists is found to be related to both interprofessional factors (the subordination under the medical profession paired with a symbiotic relation based on common interests) and intraprofessional ones (the heterogeneity of the physiotherapist profession, their role in teamwork and a change from a specialist to a generalist orientation).
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