Spaces of Education: Finding a Place that Fits
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Keywords
women, disability, education
Abstract
The fluidity of disability, and impairment emerges through a series of interviews developed with, and involving, forty women in Scotland and Canada. Their educational experiences are explored. The voices of women with disabilities in this article are important, and what appears are rich contextual profiles of women making spaces on their own terms.
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Nancy Hansen, Teacher, Interdisciplinary Master’s Program in Disability Studies, University of Manitoba
Nancy Hansen, Ph.D. is a disabled scholar who holds a Ph.D. from the University of Glasgow, Scotland, Department of Geography and Geomatics (Human Geography), (2002), Geography of Disability, and has completed a postdoctoral research fellowship jointly funded by the University of Toronto and the University of Glasgow (2003). She has just completed a DAAD (German Academic Exchange) Einstein Research Fellowship (Summer, 2004). She teaches in the Interdisciplinary Master’s Program in Disability Studies,University of Manitoba.