Right to inclusive education for children with disabilities at stake in Lithuania
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Jonas Ruškus
Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania
Published 2020-12-30
https://doi.org/10.21277/se.v1i41.526
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Keywords

Lithuania
Inclusive education
Disability
Convention on the Right of Persons with disabilities of the United Nations
Reasonable accommodation

How to Cite

Ruškus, J. (2020) “Right to inclusive education for children with disabilities at stake in Lithuania ”, Special Education, 1(41), pp. 10–52. doi:10.21277/se.v1i41.526.

Abstract

Since 2010 Lithuania is a State Party of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities of the United Nations. The development of education policy in Lithuania as concerns the right to inclusive education for children with disabilities is analysed as well as the factual trends of education of children with disabilities in segregated and regular educational settings. Author explores the assumption that intersection of the patterns of medical model of and neoliberal mindset in educational discourse impedes the implementation of human rights standards, reasonable accommodation particularly.

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