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    Education of Women with Disabilities in Pakistan: Enhanced Agency, Unfulfilled Aspirations

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    2015-05-14
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    Hammad, Tehmina
    Singal, Nidhi
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    This paper examines the extent to which the capability approach captures the complexity of the lives of young women with disabilities in Pakistan, particularly in relation to their education. Focusing on their educational experiences and outcomes, we examine the ways in which education shaped what these young women were able to achieve – what they wanted to do and be. In undertaking this research, we adopted a collaborative, qualitative approach involving in-depth interviews with six young women with disabilities. All these women were interesting and exemplary cases, given their very high levels of education. Our findings suggest that the capability approach provides a framework that is able to capture the educational experiences–outcomes journey of the young women. However, also interesting to note is how the expansion of their capabilities is bounded, primarily because their freedoms are intrinsically linked to their sociocultural positioning and largely negative perceptions of disability in the wider society. Please note: we do not have permission to upload this as a record but you can follow the link to the full document externally.
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    https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/14048
    Citation
    Tehmina Hammad & Nidhi Singal (2015) Education of women with disabilities in Pakistan: enhanced agency, unfulfilled aspirations, International Journal of Inclusive Education, 19:12, 1244-1264, DOI: 10.1080/13603116.2015.1043962
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    10.1080/13603116.2015.1043962
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    International Journal of Inclusive Education;Vol 19, Issue 12
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    https://doi.org/10.1080/13603116.2015.1043962
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    Taylor & Francis
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    ESRC-DFID
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