Skolvägen och andra hinder: En etnografisk studie om funktionsnedsatta barns skolgång i en by på Bali
(2021) SOPA63 20182School of Social Work
- Abstract
- The purpose of this study was to explore the situation of disabled children and their access to education in a village in northern Bali, Indonesia. The method used was ethnographic with participant observations, and the empirical material was collected during six weeks with ten families in their homes and at the facility of an NGO. Eight volunteers at the NGO were also informants. The questions that drove the study were: what conditions whether a child can go to school or not; how do the informants reason about the significance of schooling for disabled children; how are disabilities explained and how can these explanations be linked to the child’s possibilities to get an education. For the analysis two theories were applied: the theory of... (More)
- The purpose of this study was to explore the situation of disabled children and their access to education in a village in northern Bali, Indonesia. The method used was ethnographic with participant observations, and the empirical material was collected during six weeks with ten families in their homes and at the facility of an NGO. Eight volunteers at the NGO were also informants. The questions that drove the study were: what conditions whether a child can go to school or not; how do the informants reason about the significance of schooling for disabled children; how are disabilities explained and how can these explanations be linked to the child’s possibilities to get an education. For the analysis two theories were applied: the theory of Social Stigma (Goffman) and the Normalization Principle (Nirje). The results showed accessability and resources, but also how the disabilities were explained, as crucial factors. It was clear in the analysis that a child's education was considered extremely important to the family since the child is expected to support the parents economically, later in life. This meant that children without disabilities were given priority before those with disabilities, in terms of education. The analysis highlighted that social stigma characterized the perception on disabled children and their abilities to learn and develop, and also how their day to day life would deviate from non-disabled children. How disabilities were understood and explained differed greatly between the parents’ traditional beliefs and the volunteers’ beliefs based on medical science. This implied a dissimilar view on the notion of obstacle: for the parents the obstacle for disabled children to attend school was most often the child’s disability; for the volunteers the obstacle lay in the social organisation of the schooling and the distribution of resources. (Less)
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- Malmström, Felicia LU
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- organization
- course
- SOPA63 20182
- year
- 2021
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- Education in Indonesia, Disabled children’s education, Disabilities and Karma, utbildning i Indonesien, Funktionsnedsättningar och skolgång
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 9041774
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- 2021-03-16 13:49:08
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