Disability, citizenship and empowerment
- Milton Keynes The Open University 1993
- 43p.
- K665 The Disabling Society Workbook 2 .
Presents discussions of the struggle by disabled people to define their own independence and achieve it as a civil right. The book addresses disability issues in terms of integration as a topic of importance to human history since it explains how societies operate with order. The book discusses the history of citizenship, duties and obligations of citizens, citizenship and welfare, education for citizenship, disabled people and the denial of citizenship, the process and politics of empowerment, citizenship change and society, charting the course for citizenship, and conclusions about dependency and active citizenship.