Document Type
Article
Publication Date
7-4-2015
Journal / Book Title
Journal of Disability, Development and Education
Abstract
This qualitative study explored the perspectives of parents and teachers in the US with regard to the meaning and implications of disability in the context of schoolling, and of raising a child with a disability. The findings revealed broad conceptual differences in the perspectives of these two groups. Teachers’ beliefs were generally consistent with medical model perspectives on disability as biologically defined. Parents’ interpretations, more aligned with a sociocultural paradigm, were situated in the cultural meanings ascribed to disability and linked with issues of stigma, marginalisation and access. The findings also revealed the existence of master narratives on families of children with disabilities, entrenched in assumptions of pathological functioning and negative outcomes among these families. Implications for professional–family partnerships in the education of students with disabilities are discussed.
DOI
10.1080/1034912X.2015.1029877
MSU Digital Commons Citation
Lalvani, Priya, "Disability, Stigma and Otherness: Perspectives of Parents and Teachers" (2015). Department of Teaching and Learning Scholarship and Creative Works. 43.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/teaching-learning-facpubs/43
Published Citation
Lalvani, P. (2015). Disability, stigma and otherness: Perspectives of parents and teachers. International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 62(4), 379-393.