Disability equality – definitions and meanings

Definitions of equality and diversity terms

However, assumptions become problematic when they are based on partial or flawed information, or where the attributes commonly ascribed to particular groups of people are applied to individuals. For example, it might be assumed that there are no female Muslim students in a class because none of the women in it wears the hijab, or that there may be no disabled people in a department because no o...

Gender equality in education: Definitions and measurements

International consensus on education priorities accords an important place to achieving gender justice in the educational sphere. Both the Dakar ‘Education for All’ goals and the Millennium Development goals emphasise two goals, in this regard. These two goals are distinguished as gender parity goals [achieving equal participation of girls and boys in all forms of education based on their propo...

Managing Disability Equality in Scotland

Equality of the Spectral and Dynamical Definitions of Reflection

For full-line Jacobi matrices, Schrödinger operators, and CMV matrices, we show that being reflectionless, in the sense of the well-known property of m-functions, is equivalent to a lack of reflection in the dynamics in the sense that any state that goes entirely to x = −∞ as t → −∞ goes entirely to x = ∞ as t → ∞. This allows us to settle a conjecture of Deift and Simon from 1983 regarding erg...

Equality and disability symposium Disability and diVerence: balancing social and physical constructions

The world of disability theory is currently divided between those who insist it reflects a physical fact aVecting life quality and those who believe disability is defined by social prejudice. Despite a dialogue spanning bioethical, medical and social scientific literatures the diVerences between opposing views remains persistent. The result is similar to a figure-ground paradox in which one can...