Research Catalog

Title

Childhood disability, advocacy, and inclusion in the Caribbean : a Trinidad and Tobago case study / Beth Harry.

Author

Harry, Beth

Publication

• Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020]
• ©2020

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Description

xxiii, 283 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 23 cm

Summary

This book presents an ethnographic case study of the personal motivations, advocacy, and activation of social capital needed to create and sustain the Immortelle Children's Centre, a private school that has served children with disabilities in Trinidad/Tobago for four decades. Based on narratives by parents from the 1980's, current parents, teachers, community advocates, and the author, who was the founder of Immortelle in 1978, the study views the school within the context of a nation standing in a liminal space between developed and developing societies. It argues that the attainment of equity for children with disabilities will require an agenda that includes a legal mandate for education of all children, increased public funding for education, health and therapeutic services, and an on-going public awareness campaign. Relating this study to the global debate on inclusion, the author shows how the implementation of this agenda would have to be adapted to the social, cultural, and economic realities of the society--back cover.

Series Statement

Palgrave studies in disability and international development

Uniform Title

Palgrave studies in disability and international development

Subject

• Immortelle Children's Centre
• Special education > Trinidad and Tobago
• Special education > Trinidad and Tobago > Case studies
• Education and state > Trinidad and Tobago
• Education and state > Trinidad and Tobago > Case studies
• Special education > Economic aspects > Trinidad and Tobago
• Educational equalization > Trinidad and Tobago
• Children with disabilities > Education > Trinidad and Tobago
• Éducation spéciale > Trinité-et-Tobago
• Éducation spéciale > Trinité-et-Tobago > Études de cas
• Éducation > Politique gouvernementale > Trinité-et-Tobago
• Éducation > Politique gouvernementale > Trinité-et-Tobago > Études de cas
• Éducation spéciale > Aspect économique > Trinité-et-Tobago
• Démocratisation de l'enseignement > Trinité-et-Tobago
• Enfants handicapés > Éducation > Trinité-et-Tobago
• Children with disabilities > Education
• Education and state
• Educational equalization
• Special education
• Special education > Economic aspects
• Trinidad and Tobago

Genre/Form

Case studies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-280) and index.

Contents

1. Historical and cultural influences on education policy and disability services -- 2. The Immortelle: Planting, nurturing, and sustaining -- 3. Original parents' stories: From "something not right here" to "she's wonderful" -- 4. Forty years later: Current parents' stories--from "something not right here" to "we need systems!" -- 5. "Trinidad is nice, Trinidad is a paradise": Navigating negativity and creating love -- 6. Sustaining the Immortelle: "You have to love what you do" -- 7. Building a community of advocates: Seeking unity in diversity -- 8. Health and education: Seeking an explicit place on the agenda -- 9. Trinidad and Tobago in a liminal space -- Appendix: A word on methodology -- References -- Index.

ISBN

• 3030238571
• 9783030238575
• 9783030238605
• 3030238601

OCLC

• 1102644019
• on1102644019
• SCSB-14510244

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library