1st Edition

Disability, Diversity and Inclusive Education in Haiti Learning, Exclusion and Educational Relationships in the Context of Crises

Edited By Rochambeau Lainy Copyright 2023
270 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

270 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

270 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book examines disability, diversity, and schooling exclusion in Haiti in the wake of Hurricane Matthew. Defending a social and anthropological conception of disability as a consequence of any situation that makes a subject uncomfortable and unable to live or act properly, the book explores the difficulties that disabled children face within the school system and considers how social... Read more

Introduction: a sketch of the context  Part I: Theoretical and historical background   1. The challenges of expansion and democratization of education: a historical look at school exclusion in Haiti  2. Research in French, English and Creole on inclusive education in Haiti: a review of multilingual literature  Part II: Social representations and their interiorization at school  3. Representation of children with disabilities and cognitive justice in Haiti  4. Perception and social experience of disability in schools: ethnographic survey in a school in the South department in Haiti  Part III:  Academic failure between learning disorders and linguistics disability  5. Language troubles, the learning process, and students set up to fail  6. Bilingualism, language of instruction, and "language disability"  Part IV:  Dealing with dyslateralization, deaf, hard-hearing, and autism at school  7. Left-handedness attempts at dyslateralization, duress, and performance in reading and writing  8. Learning of written language: a study focused on a group of deaf and hard-of-hearing students in Haiti  9. Summary

Biography

Rochambeau Lainy is Professor of Educational Psychology, Psycholinguistics, and French Linguistics at the State University of Haiti.