Disability, Diversity and Inclusive Education in Haiti: Learning, Exclusion and Educational Relationships in the Context of Crises

270 Pages·2022·6.861 MB·English

by  Rochambeau Lainy

Disability, Diversity and Inclusive
Education in Haiti
This book examines disability, diversity, and schooling exclusion in Haiti
in the wake of Hurricane Matthew. Defending a social and anthropologi-
cal conception of disability as a consequence of any situation that makes a
subject uncomfortable and unable to live or act properly, the book explores
the difficulties that disabled children face within the school system and
considers how social exclusion provokes and exacerbates educational
exclusion. With contributions from linguists, educational sociologists,
educational psychologists, educators, and historians, the chapters focus on
a range of phenomena such as the balance of languages used for teaching,
gender equity, associated disorders, and the experiences of left-handed and
deaf students. Ultimately, the authors demonstrate how the educational
relationships built and practiced in school influence the perceptions of
people with disabilities, with respect to both singular contexts and peda-
gogical practices. As such, it represents an important study of the relation-
ship between school exclusion, disability, and those with precarious
socio-familial conditions, and how they can be conceptualized and
addressed in the context of crises. It will appeal to scholars, researchers,
and academics with interests in diversity and inclusive education, peda-
gogy, crisis education, and educational psychology.
Rochambeau Lainy is Professor of Educational Psychology,
Psycholinguistics, and French Linguistics at the State University of Haiti.
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Disability, Diversity and
Inclusive Education in Haiti
Learning, Exclusion and Educational
Relationships in the Context of Crises
Edited by Rochambeau Lainy
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Names: Lainy, Rochambeau, editor.
Title: Disability, diversity and inclusive education in Haiti : learning,
exclusion and educational relationships in the context of crises /
edited by Rochambeau Lainy.
Description: New York, NY : Routledge, 2023. | Series: Routledge
research in educational psychology | Includes bibliographical references
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Identifiers: LCCN 2022042368 (print) | LCCN 2022042369 (ebook) |
ISBN 9781032389462 (hardback) | ISBN 9781032389479 (paperback) |
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Subjects: LCSH: Children with disabilities--Education--Haiti. | Inclusive
education--Haiti. | People with disabilities--Social conditions--Haiti.
Classification: LCC LC4035.H35 D57 2023 (print) | LCC LC4035.H35
(ebook) | DDC 371.9097294--dc23/eng/20221028
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ISBN: 978-1-032-38947-9 (pbk)
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DOI: 10.4324/b23239
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Contents
Summary ix
List of contributors x
Preface xii
Acknowledgments xv
Abbreviations and acronyms xvi
Introduction: a sketch of the context 1
ROCHAMBEAU LAINY
PART I
Theoretical and historical background 17
1 The challenges of expansion and democratization of
education: a historical look at school exclusion
in Haiti 19
JEAN FRITZNER ÉTIENNE
2 Research in French, English and Creole on inclusive
education in Haiti: a review of multilingual literature 50
NATHALIS WAMBA
PART II
Social representations and their interiorization
at school 77
3 Representation of children with disabilities and
cognitive justice in Haiti 79
SAMUEL REGULUS
viii Contents
4 Perception and social experience of disability in schools:
ethnographic survey in a school in the South
department in Haiti 105
LUKINSON JEAN
PART III
Academic failure between learning disorders and
linguistics disability 127
5 Language troubles, the learning process, and
students set up to fail 129
ROCHAMBEAU LAINY
6 Bilingualism, language of instruction, and “language
disability” 160
RENAULD GOVAIN
PART IV
Dealing with dyslateralization, deaf, hard-hearing,
and autism at school 187
7 Left-handedness attempts at dyslateralization, duress,
and performance in reading and writing 189
ROCHAMBEAU LAINY
8 Learning of written language: a study focused on a
group of deaf and hard-of-hearing students in Haiti 217
ROCHAMBEAU LAINY AND RALPHSON PIERRE
9 Summary 245
Index 250
Summary
The chapters of this volume have been read and reviewed by Frederic
Anciaux (University of the French West Indies), Marc Boutet (University
of Sherbrooke), Renauld Govain (State University of Haiti), Martine
Poncelet (University of Liège), Rochambeau Lainy (State University of
Haiti), Sara Schley (Rochester Institute of Technology), and Nathalis
Wamba (City University of New York-CUNY). The overall copyediting of
the book was done by Marc Boutet and Tennisha Natasha Riley (Indiana
University Bloomington).
It is important to note that this English version has been translated by
Catherine McDonnell. We are very grateful to her.