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The Cultural Production of the “Disabled” Person: Constructing Difference in Bhutanese Schools
Author(s) -
Schuelka Matthew
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
anthropology and education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1548-1492
pISSN - 0161-7761
DOI - 10.1111/aeq.12244
Subject(s) - institutionalisation , ethnography , construct (python library) , sociology , institution , gender studies , socialization , social science , anthropology , political science , law , computer science , programming language
The Himalayan country of Bhutan has witnessed monumental social and cultural changes in only the last fifty years with the implementation and institutionalization of mass secular schooling. This “modern” schooling has also served to newly sort, produce, and construct “disabled” persons. Through a year of ethnographic fieldwork, I explored this construction of disability through the institution of schooling and have organized these observations into four forms: physical, pedagogical, curricular, and linguistic.