Childhood and disability in the Nordic countries : being, becoming, belonging

Childhood and disability in the Nordic countries : being, becoming, belonging / [edited by] Rannevig Traustadóttir, Borgun Ytterhus, Snæfríður Egilson and Berit Berg.

This unique collection brings together seventeen leading Nordic scholars to offer a series of in-depth, research-based studies on disabled children and young people in Scandinavia. The first comprehensive scholarly text to focus on the many aspects of growing up with a disability, this volume presen...

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Other Authors: Rannveig Traustadóttir, 1950- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Houndmills, Basingstoke Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Series:Studies in childhood and youth.
Subjects:
Children with disabilities > Scandinavia > Social conditions.
Child development > Scandinavia.
Child welfare > Scandinavia.
Identity (Psychology) > Scandinavia.
Sociology.
Disability: social aspects.
Social groups.
Sociology: family & relationships.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
Child development
Child welfare
Children with disabilities > Social conditions
Identity (Psychology)
Kind
Behinderung
Soziale Situation
Identitätsentwicklung
Barn med funktionsnedsättning.
Barns utveckling.
Sociala förhållanden.
Identitet (psykologi)
Society.
Scandinavia
Skandinavien
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword; Tom Shakespeare
  • Introduction: Disabled Children and Youth in the Nordic Countries; Sn̆fr̕dur Th. Egilson; Borgunn Ytterhus; Rannveig Traustad̤ttir; Berit Berg
  • PART I: THEORIES AND HISTORY
  • 1. Perspectives on Childhood and Disability; Borgunn Ytterhus; Sn̆fr̕dur Th. Egilson; Rannveig Traustad̤ttir; Berit Berg
  • 2. Disabled Children and Welfare Policy in the Nordic Countries: Historical notes; Jan T̜ssebro
  • 3. Inclusion, Diagnostics, and Diversity: Ethical Considerations; Simo Vehmas
  • PART II: IDENTITY AND IMAGES
  • 4. 'I'm different, but I am like everyone else' the Dynamics of Disability Identity; Anders Gustavsson; Catarina Nyberg
  • 5. Childhood Disability, Identity and the Body; Eir̕kur Smith; Rannveig Traustad̤ttir
  • 6. Ethnicity, Disability and Identity; Anna Kittelsaa
  • 7. Cultural Representation of Disability in Children's Literature; Hanna Bj̲rg Sigurj̤nsd̤ttir
  • PART III: INTERACTION AND INCLUSION
  • 8. Interaction and Belonging in Preschool; Karin Barron
  • 9. Norwegian Preschools as Integrating Institutions? Disabled Children in Preschool 1999-2009; Borgunn Ytterhus
  • 10. Interacting Technology and Social Participation; Helena Hemmingsson
  • 11. A Comparison of Social Life Among 11-year-old Disabled Children and 11 Year-olds in General; Maria R̜geskov; Helle Hansen; Steen Bengtsson
  • PART IV: FAMILIES AND SERVICES
  • 12. Growing up with Disability: Family Perspective; Jan T̜ssebro; Christian Wendelborg
  • 13. Immigration and Disability: Minority Families with Disabled Children; Berit Berg
  • 14. Services to Disabled Children and their Families: User Perspectives; Sn̆fŗ̕ur Th. Egilson.

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