B.Ed. (Learning Disability) (LD) Gender and Disability Syllabus - Mumbai University

Objectives

After completion of this course the student will be able to

• Develop an understanding of human rights based approach in context of disability
• Explain the impact of gender on disability
• Describe the personal and demographic perspectives of gender and disability
• Analyse the issues related to disabled women and girl children
• Describe the role of advocacy and legislation in creating gender equity

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

Transactions

• This course has been designed to provide the student teachers a socio-cultural perspective to disability. It aims to promote awareness about the space for disability equity and rehabilitation within the human rights system. As such the transaction of the course topics should be done through focus group discussions, and issue-based classroom interactions in addition to lectures and seminars.

Hands on Experience for notional hours: (ANY TWO) 30 Hrs 10 Marks

• 1 Study the case of a given woman with disability in terms of challenges and solutions. Submit your reflections.
• 2 Review selected paper/s authored by women with disability
• 3 Prepare community awareness material for gender equity and disability rights
• 4 Submit a power point presentation on gender – disability – poverty links.
• 5 Prepare a checklist for measuring awareness on gender discrimination issues for a chosen set of people (for example: college students, house maids, police constable etc)

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

Suggested Readings

• 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.