Disability in the Arab World: A Comparative Analysis within Culture
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London Academic Publishing
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The phenomena of disabilities in the Arab world can
be viewed from various perspectives, considering historical
times, epistemological programmes and theoretical models.
This article is a theoretical review and comparative data analysis
of the problems regarding the evolution of attitudes and current
concept of disability and theoretical assumptions of caring for
disabled people in the Arab world. Content of the theoretical
part of the paper includes reasons for caring for disabled Arabs,
including: analysis of human orientation aspects, social
orientation, equality of opportunity and principles of democracy
orientation and human development orientation. In the second
part of the article the authors discuss empirical comparative data
related to disability in the Arab world as: various causes of
congenital or acquired disabilities, including culturally bounded
causes of disabilities in Arab world, related to marriages in close
families and marriages of underage girls. The paper illustrates
key aspects of conceptualization of disabilities in the Arab
countries and gives comparative analysis of the latest data on the
situation of children with disabilities in education sectors and
adults in the labor market. This part of comparative analysis
broadly refers to the primary data from the Arab countries
published as research report in 2018 by the Economic and Social
Commission for Western Asia. The report is entitled "Disability
in the Arab Region."
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social sciences, culture, Arab World, disabilities, education, comparative analysis
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International Journal of Psycho-Educational Sciences vol. 8 (2), 2019, pp. 29-47.
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