Standing by themselves
Caregivers' strategies to ensure the right to education for children with disabilities in Orange Farm, South Africa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3103140 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Zosa Olenka De Sas Kropiwnicki (University of Johannesburg), Jean Elphick (University of Johannesburg, South Africa; Afrika Tikkun, South Africa), Rosalind Elphick (University of the Free State) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 354-368 |
| Publication date | 2014-08-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Childhood (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0907-5682 • E-ISSN: 1461-7013 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0907568214526263 |
| OpenAlex | W2316054659 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 9 |
This article describes the strategies employed by caregivers in accessing the right to education for their children with disabilities in Orange Farm, Gauteng. Children with disabilities are one of South Africa's most vulnerable population groups. Despite enabling legal and policy reform, children with disabilities face unconstitutional attitudinal and environmental barriers to accessing the nonprogressive right to a basic education. This case study examines the caregivers' self-efficacy, agency and the opportunity structures within which they are operating using an interdisciplinary theoretical framework and a qualitative methodology. The article will provide detailed examples of the agentic strategies that caregivers devise, in the face of hostile and unaccommodating bureaucratic institutions, disjointed referral mechanisms, discriminatory norms, stigmatising discourses and unjust power relations
Bureaucracy · Economic growth · Economics · Political science · Politics · Population · Public relations · Qualitative research · Referral · Social science · Sociology · Children's Rights and Participation · Law · Legal Issues in South Africa · Medicine · Nursing · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
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| Citations per year | 1.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2024 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |