Responsibility and participation in transition to university - voices of young people with
disabilities
Engelsk titel: Responsibility and participation in transition to university - voices of young people with
disabilities
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Författare:
Lang, Lena
Email: lena.lang@mah.se
Språk: Eng
Antal referenser: 43
Dokumenttyp:
Artikel
UI-nummer: 15043644
Sammanfattning
Students with disabilities are quantitatively under-represented in higher education. In this paper,
focus is on access to and processes in transition to the initial period at university. The article is
based on an empirical study examining young people's points of view, and the overall aim is to draw
attention to experiences regarding responsibility and participation. Four narrative configurations
represent the voices of how young people with disabilities experience the nature of the
responsibility, the distribution of the responsibility and the timing that emerges. Experiences in the
university context are categorized into proactive, ambivalent, reactive and non-existent community
structures. Representatives of the universities are perceived as taking various levels of
responsibility for the difficulties experienced by the young people. Genuine participation seems to be
affected by collaboration qualities involving both the surrounding environment and the individual.
This could have long-term consequences for the individual identity of a young person, as well as for
society.