Special issue on social inclusion and visual impairment
empfehlen| Titel: | Special issue on social inclusion and visual impairment |
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| Form: | Themenheft / Sonderbeilage |
| Autor(en): | Graeme Douglas,Christine Corcoran,Nigel Charles |
| Jahr: | 2007 |
| Veröffentlicht in: | British Journal of Visual Impairment, Vol. 25, No. 1 |
| Auszug: | "Tackling social exclusion and promoting social inclusion has been a major item on the current UK government’s social policy agenda. Increasing awareness that social exclusion has a major impact on people’s life chances has prompted a range of government projects and initiatives targeting crime, transport and employment (SEU, 2006). However, whilst these initiatives are to be commended, the causes of social exclusion and the mechanisms for promoting social inclusion are complex. Indeed, recent research has suggested that there is no single cause of social exclusion, rather that exclusion is multi-faceted and is a process of interrelated factors that, over time, produce people and places that are excluded from mainstream society (e.g. Webster, Simpson, MacDonald, Abbas, Creslik, Shildrick and Simpson, 2004). However, there is more to exclusion than the impact of complex social processes; as research and government policy has recognized, some people are more at risk than others (SEU, 2001). In 2005, we invited a number of researchers who are engaged in social research in the area of visual impairment to submit articles to a special issue of the British Journal of Visual Impairment on ‘Social Inclusion’." Quelle: British Journal of Visual Impairment, |