B.Ed. (Hearing Impairment) Gender and Disability Syllabus - Mumbai University
This is the University of Mumbai syllabus for the Bachelor of Education - Special Education (Hearing Impairment), the Choice Based two-year programme in force from the academic year 2016-17. It is the scheme currently examined: the University set all four of its semesters in Winter 2025 and Summer 2026, and has published no revision of it since. The University no longer hosts the document on mu.ac.in, which is why it is mirrored here in full.
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Syllabus for Gender and Disability
Module 1: Human Right-based Approach& Disability
- 1.1 Human Rights-based approach - Concept and history
- 1.2 Principles of HRbA - Equality and non-discrimination - Universality & Inalienability - Participation and inclusion - Accountability and rule of law
- 1.3 Elements of Human Rights System - Legal framework - Institutions - Development policies & programs - Public awareness - Civil society
- 1.4 Advantage of HRbA
- 1.5 HRbA and Disability - Empowerment - Enforceability - Indivisibility - Participation
Module 2: Gender and Disability
- 2.1 Sex &Gender - Concept & difference
- 2.2 Disability& impairment - Concept& difference
- 2.3 Gendered experience of disability - Public domain - Private and familial domain
- 2.4 Gender and disability mainstreaming
- 2.5 Gendered patterns in relation to disability - Developed countries - Developing countries
Module 3: Gender and Disability Analysis
- 3.1 Gender analysis
- 3.2 Disability analysis
- 3.3 Sex-disaggregated data
- 3.4 Psyche and gender
- 3.5 Normalization and social role valorisation
Module 4: Women and Girl Child with Disability
- 4.1 Inclusive equality - Equal access to family life - Equal access to education - Equal access to political participation
- 4.2 Factors contributing to disability - Gender-based violence - Traditional practices
- 4.3 Sexual and reproductive health
- 4.4 Standard of living and social protection
- 4.5 Work and employment
Module 5: Advocacy and Legal Framework
- 5.1 Women’s movement
- 5.2 Disability rights movement
- 5.3 International initiatives - CEDAW - CRC - UNCRPD
- 5.4 Constitutional provisions & schemes for disability
- 5.5 Gender critique of government schemes
Essential Readings
- Habib, L. A. (1997). Gender and Disability: Women's Experiences in the Middle East. Oxfam, UK.
- Hans, A. (2015). Disability, Gender and the Trajectories of Power. Sage Publications Pvt. Ltd.
- Meekosha, H. (2004). Gender and Disability. Sage Encyclopaedia of Disability.
- O'Brien, J., & Forde, C. (2008). Tackling Gender Inequality, Raising Pupil Achievement , Dunedin Academic.
- Ridgeway, C. L. (2011). Framed by Gender: How Gender Inequality Persists in the Modern World. Oxford University Press.
- Samuels, E. (2014). Fantasies of Identification: Disability, Gender, Race. NYU Press, USA.
- Smith, B. G., & Hutchison, B. (2013). Gendering Disability. Rutger University Press, New Jersey
- Beeghley, L. (1999). Angles of Vision: How to Understand Social Problems, West View Press.
- Purkayastha, D. (2010). Economic Growth, Intra-Household Resource Allocation and Gender Inequality, Atlantic Economic Journal, Vol. 38, No. 4.
- Treas, J., & Drobnic, S. (2010). Dividing the Domestic: Men, Women, and Household Work in Cross-National Perspective, Stanford University Press.
Reproduced from the University of Mumbai syllabus for B.Ed. Spl. Ed. (Hearing Impairment), in force from the academic year 2016-17. Wording, module numbering and the reading list are as printed in that syllabus. The PDF above is the syllabus's own page, unaltered.
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