Israeli Children's Literature about People with Disabilities

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (Supplement) ◽  
pp. 206-218
Author(s):  
Yaakova Sacerdoti
Keyword(s):  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Children With Disabilities ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
The Other ◽  
Children's Books ◽  
Disabled Children ◽  
Open Letter ◽  
Academic Year

In an open letter addressed to Israeli educators, Rabbi Shai Piron, then Education Minister, announced the theme of the 2013–14 academic year to be ‘Him Is Me’. As part of the implementation of Piron's programme, the Ministry published a list of recommended children's books about ‘the Other’, which is still used by educators. This article reflects upon and analyses books for ages four to eight included in this list that focus on children with disabilities. At first glance, it seems that the books call for full social inclusion of disabled children, thereby accomplishing the goals set by the ministry. However, a thorough textual analysis raises questions as to the true messages hidden between the lines of some of the works, questions about how far ‘otherness’ is embraced and acknowledged.

scholarly journals Availability of social services for families with disabled children in the context of the welfare state

2021 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 34-48
Author(s):  
Agota Giedrė Raišienė ◽  
Laura Gardziulevičienė
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Children With Disabilities ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Disabled Children ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
The Welfare State

The phenomenon of the welfare state is characterized by complexity of indicators. To determine in which areas the country is closer to the welfare state, various areas of social policy are analysed. In this article, we set out to investigate one of them, i.e., the accessibility of social services for children with disabilities. The European Union ensures the basic preconditions for the well-being of children with disabilities and emphasizes the compatibility of health, social and educational services (European Commission, 2021). In addition, Member States are free to introduce specific measures for social inclusion (COM, 2021). The well-being of children with disabilities is inseparable from that of adults, usually the family in which the children live. Depending on the child’s disability, the family has to devote time to the child’s special needs, so opportunities to function in society, such as working and earning an income, become dependent on the social assistance received for the disabled child. Research shows that participation in labour market processes reduces the social exclusion of families with children with disabilities and improves quality of life indicators in general (Stefanidis & Strogilos 2020). However, analysis of good practice is more common, while information about the lack of services that parents face difficulties remains overboard. Thus, our research contributes to a better understanding of how families raising children with disabilities use state-provided social services and what solutions and measures are needed to improve the quality of life of children with disabilities and their relatives. The practical implications of our article are revealed through the possibility of more confidently shaping the decisions and measures of the welfare state.The article presents results of a survey of 68 families with disabled children. Our research was conducted in Druskininkai municipality which has typical infrastructure of social services for the disabled and their families in Lithuania.Our study has shown that social services in Lithuania poorly meet needs of families with disabled children. Though social inclusion is one of the most important features of the welfare state, the provision of social services to disabled and their families goes beyond the concept in Druskininkai municipality at least. Families have little information about social guarantees and support provided by the state and municipality. The families are limited to services reported by health care and education institutions. Moreover, the most significant problem hindering social integration of disabled and their families is a small portion of disabled children using services of day care centre. As a result, children suffer at risk of social exclusion while disabled children’s parents lack of opportunities to fully participate in the labour market.Based on the results of the study we state that increasing the availability of social services that meet the needs of families with disabled children is a necessary social policy solution, without which the development of a welfare state in Lithuania is hardly possible.

The Depiction of Disability in Children’s Literature: Changes for the Better, with Particular Attention to Three New Titles; Mama Zooms (Cowen-Fletcher, 1993), The Race (Mattingley, 1995), and No Time At All (Sallis, 1994)

1996 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 53-59
Author(s):  
Margie Sare
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Children With Disabilities ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Children's Books ◽  
Children’S Books ◽  
Western Literature ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
Major Review ◽  
High Standards

Children’s literature has the power and potential to reflect societal attitudes. Changes in attitudes towards disability in Western literature can be traced by “turning the pages” through the history of children’s books. This paper addresses issues concerning children’s literature published during the past few decades. Have there been improvements since Baskin and Harris’ (1977) major review of children’s fiction depicting characters with disabilities written between 1940 and 1977? This study revealed that stereotypical portrayals of characters with disabilities were common. Furthermore, have there been attempts to move away from the educative properties of “quasi-fiction” used to promote integration of children with disabilities into regular schools? This paper concludes that many recently published children’s books of the 1980s and 1990s are presenting a more realistic and positive picture of characters with disabilities. Three new titles have been examined in detail. The success of these books in creating a climate of tolerance and empathy towards characters with disabilities is due to their high standards of literary merit and attractive, sophisticated presentation.

scholarly journals DESAFIOS PARA INCLUSÃO DA CRIANÇA COM DEFICIÊNCIA NA ESCOLA

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1/4) ◽  
pp. 36-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thayse Silva Bento ◽  
Gabrielly Iasminy Cunha De Castilhos ◽  
Soraia Dornelles Schoeller ◽  
Patrícia Kuerten Rocha ◽  
Adriana Dutra Tholl ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public School ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Children With Disabilities ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Disabled Children ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
South Of Brazil

Este estudo objetiva compreender os desafios para a inclusão das crianças com deficiência na escola sob olhar do familiar edos professores. Trata-se de uma pesquisa qualitativa, exploratória descritiva, realizada em uma escola pública do sul do país.Desenvolvida com 7 professores e 7 familiares de criança com deficiência. Os dados foram coletados através de entrevistacom roteiro pré-elaborado, gravada. A análise dos dados evidenciou que os desafios para a inclusão das crianças podem serestabelecidos em três categorias: conhecer a criança e estabelecer relações profundas com ela; necessidade de capacitaçãoprofissional para os professores; romper barreiras arquitetônicas e atitudinais. Esperamos que este estudo contribua para adivulgação das diversas questões que são necessárias para que a inclusão da criança com deficiência seja de fato efetiva dentrodas escolas.Descritores: Criança, Deficiência, Inclusão na Escola.CHALLENGES TO INCLUDE CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES IN SCHOOLThis study aimed to understand the challenges for the inclusion of disabled children in school under their familiar and teachersview. It is a qualitative, descriptive exploratory study, held in a Public School in South of Brazil. Developed with seven teachersand seven relatives of children with disabilities. Data was collected through interviews with pre-prepared script, recorded. Dataanalysis showed that the challenges for the inclusion of children can be established in three categories: to know the child andestablish deep relationships with her; need for professional training for teachers; breaking architectural and attitudinal barriers.We hope this study will contribute to the dissemination of the various issues that are necessary for the inclusion of disabledchildren is in fact effective inside schools.Descriptors: Children, People with disabilities, Inclusion in the schoolRETOS PARA INCLUIR LOS NIÑOS CON DISCAPACIDAD EN LA ESCUELAEste estudiotuvo como objetivo comprender los retos para la inclusión de niños con discapacidad en la escuela en la visióndel profesor y el familiar. Es un estúdio exploratorio, descriptivo y cualitativo, realizado en uma escuela publica del sur deBrazil. Desarrollado con siete profesores y siete familiares de niños con discapacidad. Los datos fueron recolectados a travésde entrevistas conguión preparado previamente. El análisis de los datos mostró que se pueden establecerlos retos para lainclusión de los niños entres categorías: conocer al niño y establecer relaciones profundas conel; la necesidad de la formaciónprofesional para los profesores; rompiendo las barreras arquitectónicas y actitudinales. Esperamos que este estudio contribuyaa ladifusión de las diversas cuestiones que son necesarias para lainclusión de niños con discapacidad dentro de las escuelas.Descriptores: Niños, Persona com discapacidad, Inclusión en la escuela.

scholarly journals Whatever Will Be Will Be: Queering Disabled Subjects’ Temporality

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 368-378
Author(s):  
James Sheldon ◽  
Kai Rands
Keyword(s):  
Children With Disabilities ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Disabled Children ◽  
Adults With Disabilities ◽  
The Future

Normative time is disciplined through what Freeman calls chrononormativity, and this disciplining is particularly evident in the experiences of disabled children. Despite the constant regimenting of the present reality for disabled children in time, they are essentially denied a future, the future generally being figured without people with disabilities. Exploring Muñoz’s critiques of Edelman, we emphasize the importance of futurity for children with disabilities, particularly one which they get to construct themselves rather than being constructed for them. We turn to Foucault’s discussion of the Ship of Fools in order to begin to imagine an alternative, queer time that is “steered” by children (and adults) with disabilities towards their own ends and goals.

scholarly journals New Books that Promote Diversity and Social Inclusion

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Desmarais
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Good News ◽  
Children's Books ◽  
Children’S Books ◽  
Line Drawings ◽  
Disability Culture ◽  
Diverse Backgrounds

Dear Readers,As you can easily imagine, our journal receives regular deliveries from publishers of children’s books who would like to see their new titles reviewed by Deakin writers. For many years now, I have been pleased to open an increasing number of courier boxes filled with children’s books that raise awareness of diversity. The boxes keep coming and so do the books featuring diverse characters, including (but not limited to) LGBTQ youth, people with disabilities, ethnic and cultural minorities, and Indigenous peoples. The number of books written and illustrated by people from culturally, ethnically, and racially diverse backgrounds is also on the rise, and this circumstance bodes well for the future of children’s literature. Indeed, publishers appear eager to let their readers know that they take diversity seriously, and many publishers, such as Groundwood Books and Penguin UK, include a diversity statement or manifesto on their websites. This is good news that should be celebrated. Our fall issue is filled with thought-provoking books that embrace diversity, including Inuit Spirit (containing line drawings by world-renowned Inuit artist, Germaine Arnaktauyok), People of the Sea (describing the role of sea-people in Inuit culture), Isaac and His Amazing Asperger Superpowers! (helping children to understand the Asperger’s/autism spectrum), and many other compelling titles. These books help children appreciate differences in ethnicity, disability, culture, gender, lifestyle, and perspectives. If you read and enjoy a book about diversity, please spread the word and let other readers know about your discovery. We can all help to advocate for diversity in children’s literature by buying diverse books from booksellers and sharing them with young readers. Please spread the word that diversity matters!Best wishes,Robert DesmaraisManaging Editor

The Selection of Children's Books Translated from Spanish to Galician, Basque and Catalan (1940–80)

2009 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 243-258
Author(s):  
Mónica Domínguez Pérez
Keyword(s):  
Social Economic ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Intercultural Relations ◽  
Children's Books ◽  
Source Text ◽  
The Status ◽  
Castilian Spanish ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
Selection Of

This study deals with children's literature translated from Castilian Spanish into Galician, Basque and Catalan by a different publisher from that of the source text, between 1940 and 1980, and with the criteria used to choose books for translation during that period. It compares the different literatures within Spain and examines the intersystemic and intercultural relations that the translations reflect. Following the polysystems theory, literature is here conceived as a network of agents of different kinds: authors, publishers, readers, and literary models. Such a network, called a polysystem, is part of a larger social, economic, and cultural network. These extra-literary considerations play an important role in determining the selection of works to be translated. The article suggests that translations can be said to establish transcultural relations, and that they demonstrate different levels of power within a specific interliterary community. It concludes that, while translations may aim to change the pre-existent relationships, frequently they just reflect the status quo.

‘Here in India’: Nineteenth-Century British Women Navigating their Position in the Empire through Children's Literature

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-185
Author(s):  
Jesse Aberbach
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Infants And Children ◽  
Children's Books ◽  
Children’S Books ◽  
Maternal Roles ◽  
Female Writers ◽  
And Control ◽  
Botanical Study

This article considers how the children's books written by two nineteenth-century female writers, Eliza Tabor and Mary Martha Sherwood, when they accompanied their husbands to India, enabled them to navigate this new environment and their position as respectable middle-class women while revealing how India was deemed a place where British childhood was impossible. Just as many women took up botanical study to legitimise their ‘otherwise transgressive presence in imperial spaces’ (McEwan 219), writing for children enabled others to engage with the masculine world of travelling and earning money without compromising their femininity. Addressing their work to children also seems to have helped both writers to deal with the absence of their own children: the Indian climate made it impossibly challenging for most British infants and children. In this way their writing gives expression to what might be termed a crisis of imperial motherhood. Underlying the texts is an anxiety relating to British settlement and an attempt to comprehend and control a place that threatened their maternal roles.

The Adult as Foe or Friend?: Childism in Guus Kuijer's Criticism and Fiction

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vanessa Joosen
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Children's Books ◽  
Children’S Books ◽  
Memorial Award ◽  
Adult Reader ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Selection Of

Compared to the attention that children's literature scholars have paid to the construction of childhood in children's literature and the role of adults as authors, mediators and readers of children's books, few researchers have made a systematic study of adults as characters in children's books. This article analyses the construction of adulthood in a selection of texts by the Dutch author and Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award winner Guus Kuijer and connects them with Elisabeth Young-Bruehl's recent concept of ‘childism’ – a form of prejudice targeted against children. Whereas Kuijer published a severe critique of adulthood in Het geminachte kind [The despised child] (1980), in his literary works he explores a variety of positions that adults can take towards children, with varying degrees of childist features. Such a systematic and comparative analysis of the way grown-ups are characterised in children's texts helps to shed light on a didactic potential that materialises in different adult subject positions. After all, not only literary and artistic aspects of children's literature may be aimed at the adult reader (as well as the child), but also the didactic aspect of children's books can cross over between different age groups.

A content analysis of gender representation in Malaysian children's literature

2008 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 49
Author(s):  
Ramesh Nair
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Children's Literature ◽  
English Language ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Children's Books ◽  
Children’S Books ◽  
Minor Characters ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Mental Schemas ◽  
Selection Of

Children's literature serves as a powerful medium through which children construct messages about their roles In society and gender Identity is often central to this construction. Although possessing mental schemas about gender differences is helpful when children organize their ideas of the world around them, problems occur when children are exposed to a constant barrage of uncompromising, gender-schematic sources that lead to stereotyping which in turn represses the full development of the child. This paper focuses on how gender is represented in a selection of Malaysian children's books published in the English language. Relying on the type of content analysis employed by previous feminist social science researchers, I explore this selection of Malaysian children's books for young children and highlight some areas of concern with regard to the construction of maleness and femaleness in these texts. The results reveal Imbalances at various levels Including the distribution of main, supporting and minor characters along gendered lines and the positioning of male and female characters In the visual Illustrations. The stereotyping of these characters In terms of their behavioural traits will be discussed with the aim of drawing attention to the need for us to take concerted measures to provide our children with books that will help them realize their potential to the fullest.

STRUCTURAL AND DYNAMIC FEATURES OF EAR-LY DISABILITY DUE TO MENTAL DISEASES

2020 ◽  
pp. 62-67
Author(s):  
Shmakova O.P.
Keyword(s):  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Child And Adolescent Psychiatry ◽  
Child Psychiatrist ◽  
Childhood And Adolescence ◽  
Disabled Children ◽  
Dynamic Features ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Number Of Children ◽  
Number Of Patients

Prevention of disability is one of the most significant tasks of child and adolescent psychiatry. Obtaining data on the dynamics of the number of people with disabilities and the factors affecting this indicator seems to be one of the relevant aspects. Aim: to trace the dynamics of the number of children with disabili-ties and to assess the change in the structure of early disability over the past decades. Materials and Meth-ods. A comparative analysis of two cohorts of patients was carried out: 1st - patients born in 1990-1992. (1203 patients (men - 914, 76%; women - 289, 24%)) who applied to the district neuropsychiatric dispensa-ry for outpatient care in childhood and adolescence; II - children and adolescents born in 2005 - 2018 (602 patients (male - 410, 68%; female - 192, 32%), ob-served at the time of the study by a child psychiatrist in the neuropsychiatric dispensary. Research methods: clinical and psychopathological; follow-up; statisti-cal. Results. Comparison of the number and nosologi-cal distribution of disabled children in two cohorts showed that over the 15th year there has been a shift towards an increase in the proportion of disabled children among patients observed by child and ado-lescent psychiatrists. The increase in the number of children with disabilities was due to those suffering from childhood autism and other disorders of general development. There were no statistically significant differences in the number of people with disabilities who received benefits before the age of 7, as well as differences in gender ratios among disabled people in the two cohorts. Conclusion. Early disability is a mul-tifactorial phenomenon, prevalence, dynamics, the structure of which depends not only on clinical, but also on socio-administrative realities. Children with autism require increased attention, since there has been a multiple increase in the number of patients with this diagnosis.

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