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Interrogating the agency and education of refugee children with disabilities in Northern Uganda: A critical capability approach

Monk, David; Walton, Elizabeth; Madziva, Roda; Opio, George; Kruisselbrink, Annemaaike; Openjuru, George Ladaah

Authors

David Monk

George Opio

Annemaaike Kruisselbrink

George Ladaah Openjuru



Abstract

This paper draws on empirical evidence from a 3-year research project in Northern Uganda examining the educational experiences of refugees with disabilities. The authors present the compounded and interrelated challenges children with disabilities and their families face as they navigate their educational experiences and seek out opportunities to live well. The authors seek to make a contribution towards improving educational experiences by first highlighting compounding challenges faced by refugee children living with disabilities and their families and related policy gaps that have ramifications for refugee children's access to education in particular, and second by expanding discourse about refugee children with disabilities agency in relation to these liminal gaps and the impact the gaps have for accessing education. The authors use Powell and McGrath's (in Skills for human development: Transforming vocational education and training, Routledge, 2019; Handbook of vocational education and training, Springer, 2019) concept of critical capabilities and relationality, to expand Klocker's (in Global perspectives on rural childhood and youth: Young rural lives, Routledge, 2007) notions of thick and thin agency and to interrogate refugee children living with disabilities' agency in relation to education opportunities and rights.

Citation

Monk, D., Walton, E., Madziva, R., Opio, G., Kruisselbrink, A., & Openjuru, G. L. (2024). Interrogating the agency and education of refugee children with disabilities in Northern Uganda: A critical capability approach. Children & Society, 38(5), 1419-1434. https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12810

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Oct 17, 2023
Online Publication Date Oct 31, 2023
Publication Date 2024-09
Deposit Date Nov 2, 2023
Publicly Available Date Nov 1, 2024
Journal Children & Society
Print ISSN 0951-0605
Electronic ISSN 1099-0860
Publisher Wiley
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 38
Issue 5
Pages 1419-1434
DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12810
Keywords Children; disability; education; refugees; relational agency
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/26807259
Publisher URL https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/chso.12810