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04 SES 09 A, Barriers for Inclusion
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The paper introduces a stand-alone research project of the Department of Education at the University of Vienna in cooperation with Srinakharinwirot University Bangkok (Thailand) and Addis Ababa University (Ethiopia) funded by the Austrian Science Fund (Project number P22178, Project website: http://classifications-of-disabilities.univie.ac.at/)
This research project aims to provide an international and cross-cultural comparative study in the field of special needs and inclusive education. It investigates which environmental factors facilitate or restrict activity and participation of school-aged children with disabilities in the field of education in different societal and cultural contexts (Chapireau 2005, Üstün et al. 2001, Schriewer 2007, Florian / McLaughlin 2008, Norwich 2007). The target group consists of children with disabilities due to somatically caused impairments according to OECD category A (OECD 2005). School-aged children with hearing, visual, motor and intellectual disabilities are represented in the sample in a comparable number.
The project refers to the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) and the adapted Child and Youth version (ICF-CY) of the World Health Organisation (WHO 2001, 2007). This classification regards disability as a product of impairments of physical and mental structures and functions, activity limitations and participation restrictions in combination with environmental and personal factors. Based on the classification scheme of the ICF/ICF-CY the research project investigates barriers and facilitators in the field of education in Austria, Thailand, and Ethiopia. These three countries differ to a great extent in regard to societal and cultural contexts (Apinwong 2002, Tirussew Teferra 2005). All of them have a long cultural tradition, which was hardly influenced by colonialism, neither as colonizers nor as colonized subjects. With reference to the Human Development Index (HDI), the societal development can be regarded as high in Austria, medium in Thailand, and low in Ethiopia. Vienna, Bangkok and Addis Ababa, where the investigations take place, are the central urban areas of the three countries and they differ with some important indicators such as cultural and societal diversity to the rest of the urban and rural areas of each country.
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