Beyond Education for All: Using ableism studies lens and the BIAS FREE framework

Abstract

Brigid Burke and Gregor Wolbring employ favouritism for abilities and ableism lens and the BIAS FREE Framework as two tools to analyse different education initiatives (Education for All, Education for Sustainable Development, Education for Human Rights, Inclusive Education and Adult Education initiatives). They conclude that whereas these initiatives are fragmented, the underlying abilities favoured by the initiatives are complementary and should be combined to increase their potency, which in turn would support the building of a holistic, equitable approach to education to which people are entitled by their human rights.

Voices of “disabled” post secondary students: Examining higher education “disability” policy using an ableism lens.

“…The concept of ableism, arising from the disabled people's rights movement (Wolbring, 2008b) and further developed through the scholarship of Campbell (2009), Hughes (2007), Overboe (1999), and (Wolbring 2008a; Wolbring, 2008b; Wolbring, 2008c; Burke and Wolbring, 2010; Wolbring, 2010; Wolbring, 2011), builds on existing understandings of the sociocultural production of ability . Ableism as a concept describes, and is reflected in, individual and group perceptions of certain abilities as essential.…”

Who Needs to Fit in? Who Gets to Stand out? Communication Technologies Including Brain-Machine Interfaces Revealed from the Perspectives of Special Education School Teachers Through an Ableism Lens

“…The dichotomy of non-or socially accepted communication technologies suggests that perceptions towards people with disabilities within the framework of the medical model continue to be influential. This dominating lens sets the tone for how people with disabilities are viewed by society by identifying disabilities as below species typical and deficient [62]. Furthermore, if a medical framework continues to be as dominant and influential as it presently is among other discourses (e.g., technology research and development) [54] , people with disabilities will continue to be regarded as impaired, requiring the aid and support to become as typical as possible, rather than as part of our diverse culture) [50,51,54].…”