Community-Based Education for Students with Developmental Disabilities in Tanzania

✍ Scribed by Angela Stone-MacDonald (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 144
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Education
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Based on a yearlong ethnographic study, this book describes the daily life and work of the Irente Rainbow School, a special education school for students with developmental disabilities in Lushoto, Tanzania. It examines the use of local context, community funds of knowledge, culturally relevant pedagogy, and community support to teach students with disabilities important life skills, independence, self-advocacy and to fight for their human rights. This book offers several lessons for different audiences; it is a primer on disability and education in a rural African town, an alternative model for non-governmental agencies to consider in designing community-based and community-engaged programs, and a story about an exceptional group of teachers, students and families who took action to provide an education and a realization of rights for children with disabilities. ​

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction....Pages 1-19
The Local Culture....Pages 21-37
Irente Rainbow School....Pages 39-60
A Week at the Irente Rainbow School....Pages 61-87
The Academic and Vocational Classrooms....Pages 89-106
Circles of Influence....Pages 107-122
What Can We Learn from this Community?....Pages 123-136
Back Matter....Pages 137-138

✦ Subjects

Sociology of Education; Childhood Education; Sociology, general; Cultural Studies