LEADER 05012nam 22006375 450 001 9910369906903321 005 20250610110427.0 010 $a9783030238582 010 $a303023858X 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-23858-2 035 $a(CKB)4100000009445235 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-23858-2 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5917333 035 $a(PPN)253221366 035 $a(Perlego)3492737 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC29132631 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000009445235 100 $a20191004d2020 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn|008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aChildhood Disability, Advocacy, and Inclusion in the Caribbean $eA Trinidad and Tobago Case Study /$fby Beth Harry 205 $a1st ed. 2020. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2020. 215 $a1 online resource (XXIII, 283 p. 22 illus., 21 illus. in color.) 225 1 $aPalgrave Studies in Disability and International Development,$x2945-6622 311 08$a9783030238575 311 08$a3030238571 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1. Chapter 1 Historical and Cultural Influences on Education Policy and Disability Services -- 2. Chapter 2 The Immortelle: Planting, Nurturing, and Growing -- 3. Chapter 3 Original Parents' Stories: From "Something not right here" to "She's wonderful!" -- 4. Chapter 4 Forty Years Later: Current Parents - From "Something not Right Here to "We Need Systems!" -- 5. Chapter 5 "Trinidad is Nice, Trinidad is a Paradise": Navigating negativity and creating love -- 6. Chapter 6 Sustaining the Immortelle: "You Have to Love What You Do" -- 7. Chapter 7 Building a Community of Advocates: Seeking Unity in Diversity -- 8. Chapter 8 Health and Education: Seeking an Explicit Place on the Agenda -- 9. Chapter 9 Trinidad and Tobago in a Liminal Space. . 330 $a"Skillfully places the 40-year history of the Immortelle Children's Center within the larger context of Trinidad/Tobago's post-colonial development and its current state of 'liminal' in-between-ness, poised to enter the next stage of pursuing the moral imperatives of development by ensuring educational services for children with disabilities." -Maya Kalyanpur, Professor, University of San Diego, USA "A penetrative ethnographic case study that skillfully weaves the voices of parents, caregivers, teachers, and community activists into a study pierced through with empathy." -Paula Morgan, Professor, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago "Grounded in the rigor of ethnography and the authority forged by lived experience, Harry offers a multifaceted historical portrait of unsettling questions about human rights and competence, in a young nation of the South with a deep commitment to equality." -Alfredo Artiles, Professor, Arizona State University, USA This book presents an ethnographic case study of the personal motivations, advocacy, and activation of social capital needed to create and sustain the Immortelle Children's Centre, a private school that has served children with disabilities in Trinidad/Tobago for four decades. Based on narratives by parents from the 1980's, current parents, teachers, community advocates, and the author, who was the founder of Immortelle in 1978, the study views the school within the context of a nation standing in a liminal space between developed and developing societies. It argues that the attainment of equity for children with disabilities will require an agenda that includes a legal mandate for education of all children, increased public funding for education, health and therapeutic services, and an on-going public awareness campaign. Relating this study to the global debate on inclusion, the author shows how the implementation of this agenda would have to be adapted to the social, cultural, and economic realities of the society. Beth Harry is Professor of Special Education at the Department of Teaching and Learning, University of Miami, USA. 410 0$aPalgrave Studies in Disability and International Development,$x2945-6622 606 $aAmerica$xPolitics and government 606 $aEconomic development 606 $aEducation and state 606 $aAmerican Politics 606 $aDevelopment Studies 606 $aEducation Policy 615 0$aAmerica$xPolitics and government. 615 0$aEconomic development. 615 0$aEducation and state. 615 14$aAmerican Politics. 615 24$aDevelopment Studies. 615 24$aEducation Policy. 676 $a320.4 676 $a371.90972983 700 $aHarry$b Beth$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0913767 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910369906903321 996 $aChildhood Disability, Advocacy, and Inclusion in the Caribbean$92047257 997 $aUNINA