Interrogating the agency and education of refugee children with disabilities in Northern Uganda

A critical capability approach

Bibliographic Data

ID14895809
AuthorsDavid H Monk (0000-0002-9178-6576, Gulu University Gulu Uganda, corresponding author), Elizabeth Walton (0000-0003-1868-9590, Backup Uganda Gulu Uganda), Roda Madziva (0000-0003-2485-787X, School of Sociology and Social Policy University of Nottingham Nottingham UK), George Opio (Faculty of Education and Humanities Gulu University Gulu Uganda), Annemaaike Kruisselbrink (School of Education University of Nottingham Nottingham UK), George L Openjuru (0000-0001-6802-8729, Gulu University Gulu Uganda)
Year2024
Volume38
Issue5
Pages1419-1434
Publication date2024-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueChildren & Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0951-0605 • E-ISSN: 1099-0860
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/chso.12810
OpenAlexW4388073243
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited26

This paper draws on empirical evidence from a 3‐year research project in Northern Uganda examining the educational experiences of refugees with disabilities. The authors present the compounded and interrelated challenges children with disabilities and their families face as they navigate their educational experiences and seek out opportunities to live well. The authors seek to make a contribution towards improving educational experiences by first highlighting compounding challenges faced by refugee children living with disabilities and their families and related policy gaps that have ramifications for refugee children's access to education in particular, and second by expanding discourse about refugee children with disabilities agency in relation to these liminal gaps and the impact the gaps have for accessing education. The authors use Powell and McGrath's (in Skills for human development: Transforming vocational education and training , Routledge, 2019; Handbook of vocational education and training , Springer, 2019) concept of critical capabilities and relationality, to expand Klocker's (in Global perspectives on rural childhood and youth: Young rural lives , Routledge, 2007) notions of thick and thin agency and to interrogate refugee children living with disabilities' agency in relation to education opportunities and rights

Agency (philosophy · Liminality · Pedagogy · Political science · Refugee · Social science · Sociology · Special education · Vocational education · Education and experiences of immigrants and refugees · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Health and Trauma · Peace and Human Rights Education

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