Mobility Disability, Education and the Welfare State Policy-Making and the Integration of Children with Mobility Disabilities into the Public School System in Post-War Sweden
HISTORY OF EDUCATION, cilt.55, sa.1, ss.66-88, 2026 (SSCI, Scopus)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
- Cilt numarası: 55 Sayı: 1
- Basım Tarihi: 2026
- Doi Numarası: 10.1080/0046760x.2025.2553163
- Dergi Adı: HISTORY OF EDUCATION
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus, IBZ Online, Periodicals Index Online, Agricultural & Environmental Science Database, American History and Life, EBSCO Education Source, Education Abstracts, Educational research abstracts (ERA), ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Gender Studies Database, Historical Abstracts, MLA - Modern Language Association Database, MLA International Bibliography, Academic Search Ultimate (EBSCO), Social Science Premium Collection (ProQuest), Education Collection (ProQuest), Education Source Ultimate (EBSCO), Sociology Source Ultimate (EBSCO)
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.66-88
- İstanbul Üniversitesi Adresli: Hayır
Özet
This article investigates how and why children with mobility disabilities were gradually integrated into the public school system in Sweden in the post-war era, c. 1950-1970. Through a qualitative analysis of the policy process, focusing on the conceptual and ideological contents of policies and motives, I argue that the shift from segregation to integration should be understood as part of social democratic state formation. Firstly, I show how the policy process emerged when state actors and experts started to problematise institutional care and education and formulate politics to rationalise and nationalise the current organisation. Secondly, I show that the subsequent consolidation phase was powered by the language of integration in the mid 1960s. Integration of mobility impaired children, as a policy idea, was lined up with the social democratic programme of recasting society: to build a new society in which individuals circulated between different functional spheres on equal terms.