Doing disability research in a Southern context

Challenges and possibilities

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12314432
AutoresNidhi Singal (0000-0001-5900-168X, University of Cambridge, autor de correspondencia)
Año2010
Volumen25
Número4
Páginas415-426
Fecha de publicación2010-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaDisability & Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0968-7599 • E-ISSN: 1360-0508
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09687591003755807
OpenAlexW2142943609
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas33
Referencias citadas11

Research on disability issues in countries of the South is primarily dominated by a focus on generating large scale quantitative data sets. This paper discusses the many challenges, opportunities and dilemmas faced in designing and undertaking a qualitative research study in one district in India. The Disability, Education and Poverty Project (DEPP) aims at exploring the role of education in the lives of young people with disabilities living in poverty. A central focus of the research is to engage with the young people with disabilities themselves and to understand how they construed their lives and experiences. This paper discusses three issues which are of central concern to the project: identification of the sample group, appropriateness of the research methods and, finally, an examination of the assumptions underpinning the research process

Context (archaeology · Economic growth · Focus group · Geography · Pedagogy · Political science · Poverty · Public relations · Qualitative property · Qualitative research · Scale (ratio · Social science · Sociology · Underpinning · Children's Rights and Participation · Disability Rights and Representation · Engineering · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare · Psychology