Crossing the higher educational divide for people with intellectual disability

• Authors: O’Brien, Patricia

Abstracts

EN

In this paper university life for people with intellectual disability will be described across international boundaries, with a particular emphasis on the model of inclusion at the University of Sydney. How the latter model was developed, researched and implemented will be included in the presentation followed by a critique of positive and challenging outcomes reported by universities that have opened their doors to students with intellectual disability. The student voice and that of lecturing staff will be digitally heard within the presentation exemplifying how unity in diversity has enabled students to self-actualize, through increasing their responsibilities and autonomy as adult learners. In keeping with the philosophy of the Maria Grzegorzewska University it will be argued that inclusion at the higher education level means a “good university for all”. Within the presentation the work of the Inclusive Research Network (IRN) at the Centre for Disability Studies will illustrate how in real life both co-design and co-researching between people with intellectual disabilities and people without can add to the concept of both building unity across diversity and crossing the divide.

Keywords

EN

people with intellectual disability; the model of inclusion at the University of Sydney; self-actualize; responsibilities; autonomy; adult learners; the Inclusive Research Network (IRN); the Centre for Disability Studies; co-design and co-researching between people with intellectual disabilities and people without

• Publisher: Akademia Pedagogiki Specjalnej im. Marii Grzegorzewskiej. Wydawnictwo APS
• Journal: Człowiek - Niepełnosprawność - Społeczeństwo
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 49(3)
• Pages: 53-62

Dates

published

2020-08-18

Contributors

author

O’Brien, Patricia

Identifiers

DOI

10.5604/01.3001.0014.3575