Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Disability and a Good Life: Working with Disability
UNSW Sydney
This online course introduced contemporary frameworks for understanding and working with disability and explored how we can work to realise disability rights and enable a good life for everyone at the personal, community and societal levels. The course covered disability as a dimension of human diversity, international human rights frameworks, definitions of access, debates around care and support, notions of contribution, and channels for working for change.
6 weeks, 5 hours per week
Louisa Smith
Lecturer
UNSW Sydney
Leanne Dowse
Associate Professor
UNSW Sydney
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Identify and explain what a good life might mean for a diversity of people, including people with disabilities
- Evaluate the importance of listening to the ideas and life experiences of people with disabilities
- Explain disability rights through an examination of international human rights frameworks, including the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD)
- Explain how discrimination and barriers impact the lives of people with disabilities
- Explore an understanding of access as having different patterns that can enable and disable
- Critically engage with debates around care and support, and explain what these concepts look like in practice
- Critically reflect on what we identify and value as contribution – economically, culturally and personally
- Explore channels for working for change at individual, local and global levels
Syllabus
- The importance of valuing human diversity, inclusion and belonging
- The implications of discrimination and barriers to access in the lives of people with disabilities
- Definitions of disability, human rights, access, care, support and contribution
- The significance of international human rights frameworks, including the UNCRPD
- What care and support look like in practice
- The diverse ways that people with disabilities contribute to society
- Advocacy and activism as channels for working for change
Issued on 6th October 2017
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