Disability, Multiculturalism, and Diversity

‘The multicultural perspective seeks to provide a conceptual framework that recognizes the complex diversity of a plural society while, at the same time, suggesting bridges of shared concern that bind culturally different persons to one another.’ (Pedersen, 1991, p. 7)

Goals

  • To explore different ways people acquire identity.
  • To discuss how disability plays a role in identity construction.

Objectives:

  • To understand how disability fits into multiculturalism and diversity.
  • To see how different agents transmit culture and sources of cultural identity.