The Method of Determining and Improving the Educational Conditions for People with Disabilities in Higher Educations

The main goal of the monograph is to present a proven method, based on a process approach, to define and improve the conditions of education at a higher education institution for individual disabilities. This is accompanied by the author’s conviction that the developed and promoted method should define the obligations of each university in the field of ensuring access of PwD to higher education, and that the fulfillment of these obligations should be ensured by the law formulated in such a way that these obligations are explicitly indicated as absolute.

Contents

Summary / 7
Introduction / 9

Part I. The European Context of Inclusive Education / 11

1. Research conditions / 11
1.1. Problem context / 11
1.2. Research objectives / 13
1.3. Scope of research / 16
1.4. Expected results / 17

2. European legal and policy framework for inclusive higher education / 18
2.1. The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) in the European context / 18
2.2. European Union Strategy for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2021–2030 / 19
2.3. EU Directive on the accessibility of educational institutions / 20

3. Higher education systems and inclusion in Europe / 23
3.1. Models of inclusive education in European Union countries / 23
3.2. Support policies for students with disabilities in different education systems / 24
3.3. The role of universities in promoting accessibility and equity in education / 26
3.4. Support programs and services for students with disabilities / 27

4. Challenges and barriers in higher education for students with disabilities in Europe / 30
4.1. Barriers: mental, architectural, economic and legal, educational and professional activation / 30
4.2. Turning barriers into opportunities / 41
4.3. Digital and technological accessibility at European universities / 44

Part II. Case study – Ireland – Dublin (based on own research results) / 49

5. Conducting research / 49
5.1. Research objectives and methods / 49
5.2. Selection of universities in Ireland for analysis / 53
5.3. Data collection and analysis methods / 53
5.4. Research limitations / 54

6. Analysis and results / 55
6.1. Institutional strategies for inclusive education / 55
6.2. ALTITUDE Project – for education accessible to all / 56
6.3. Unlocking Inclusion – Toolkit for Universal Design in Higher Education (UCD – University College Dublin) / 57
6.4. Support Systems for Students with Disabilities in Ireland / 58
6.5. Accessibility of Irish universities in terms of infrastructure and digital / 59

7. A proposed method for identifying and improving educational conditions in Ireland / 73
7.1. Process approach to inclusive education / 73
7.2. Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and its application in Ireland / 75
7.3. Use of technologies supporting accessibility / 77
7.4. Model of cooperation between universities and government institutions / 79

8. Implementation and development directions / 82
8.1. Recommendations for universities in Europe based on the Irish experience / 82
8.2. Proposals for political changes at the EU level / 84
8.3. Integrating inclusive education into the labour market – lessons from the Irish system / 85

Summary / 88
Conclusions from monographs and research / 88
Conclusions and recommendations / 90
Directions for future research / 91

Bibliography / 94
List of drawings / 97
Biographical note of the author / 98
Review by: Dr Anna M. Kelly, PhD (University College Dublin Ireland) / 99

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