Symposium: Disability Studies & Participation in Higher Education, Universität Innsbruck 27. – 29. Juni 2019
Symposium: Disability Studies & Participation in Higher Education, Universität Innsbruck 27. – 29. Juni 2019
Research on disability and educational inequality has gained traction since the 1980s. Then, the international disability rights movement combined their efforts to fight for access to regular public education systems and universities, as did the women’s movement earlier in the century. As a result, more and more people with disabilities could attend schools and obtain graduation certificates allowing them to access higher education. At the same, time civil rights movements started working on alternative routes to higher education in order to supplement the highly selective systems of secondary and tertiary education.
But, how inclusive have higher education institutions in different parts of the world become over the last decades, especially universities? What impact had these developments on the participation of persons with disabilities in higher education? What possibilities are available to offer ‘higher education’ outside of universities and which alternatives have been developed to create inclusive learning spaces for people with disabilities and social disadvantages?
With the University of Innsbruck celebrating its 350th anniversary in 2019, we want to address these questions by taking a critical look back and by developing future perspectives for the way forward. The symposium therefore addresses four thematic areas: barriers to access higher education, barriers and participation in higher education, the contributions of Disability Studies and Inclusive Education and, finally, alternative routes to participate in higher education.
Weitere Details finden Sie hier: CfP_Symposium DS 2019 Innsbruck
