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Disability and Inclusive Education in Zimbabwe

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This chapter examines the historical and contemporary events influencing disability spaces for learning, teaching and administration of education in Zimbabwe. We reconceptualise and operationalise related practices from a power, knowledge and social difference perspective, projecting social policy driven agendas increasingly inclusive of organisation of and for people with disability.

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  1. Jabulani Mpofu
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  1. University of South Africa, South Africa

    Nareadi Phasha

  2. University of South Africa, South Africa

    Dikeledi Mahlo

  3. University of Toronto, Canada

    George J. Sefa Dei

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Mpofu, J., Molosiwa, S. (2017). Disability and Inclusive Education in Zimbabwe. In: Phasha, N., Mahlo, D., Dei, G.J.S. (eds) Inclusive Education in African Contexts. Anti-Colonial Educational Perspectives for Transformative Change. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-803-7_4

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