Project Publications: Disability, Education & Poverty
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Progress on the Disability, Education & Poverty Study in India
Working Papers:
Mugo, J.K., Oranga, J. & Singal, N. (2010) Testing youth transitions in Kenya: Are young people with disabilities falling through the cracks? RECOUP Working Paper No. 34.
Naveed, A. & Tanweer-ul-Islam. (2010). Estimating Multidimensional Poverty and Identifying the Poor in Pakistan: An Alternative Approach. RECOUP Working Paper No. 28.
Singal, N., Jeffery, R., Jain, A. & Sood, N. (2009). 'With education you can do anything; without education there's nothing you can do'. Outcomes of schooling for young people with disabilities. RECOUP Working Paper 24.
Singal, N. & Bhatti, F. with Malik, R. (2009). Counting the invisible: understanding the lives of people with disabilities in Pakistan. RECOUP Working Paper 23.
Singal, N. (2008). Forgotten youth: Disability and development in India. RECOUP Working Paper 14. This paper was featured on the R4D website: http://www.research4development.info/caseStudies.asp?dwnCategory=3
Singal, N. (2007). Conceptualizing disability and education in the South: Challenges for research. RECOUP Working Paper 10.
Articles in Journals:
Jeffery, R. & Singal, N. (2008). Measuring disability in India. Economic and Political Weekly, 43 (12-13), 22-24.
Miles, S. & Singal. N. (2009). The Education for All and Inclusive Education debate: Conflict, contradiction or opportunity? International Journal of Inclusive Education, 14(1), 1-15.
Singal, N. (2010). Doing disability research in a Southern context: challenges and opportunities. Disability & Society, 25(4), 415-426.
Singal, N. with Jeffery, R. (2009) Transitions to adulthood for young people with disabilities in India: Current status and emerging prospects. Asia Pacific Disability Rehabilitation Journal, 20 (1), 15-40.
Singal, N. (2008). Working towards inclusion: Reflections from the classroom. Teaching and Teacher Education, 24, 1516-1529.
Commissioned Paper:
Singal, N (2009). Education for children with disabilities in India. A background paper for EFA GMR 2010. UNESCO: Paris.
Professonal Materials:
Jeffery, R. & Singal, N. (2008). Disability estimates: implications from a changing landscape of socio-political struggle. RECOUP Policy brief No.3.
Singal, N. & Jeffery, R. (2008). Qualitative research skills workshop: A facilitator's reference manual. Cambridge: RECOUP. This is an Open Educational Resource based on the philosophy of open-sharing, collaboration and capacity building, it is an attempt to foster a community of qualitative social researchers working in the South.
Presentations:
Jeffery, R., Singal, N. & Colclough, C. (2008). New Approaches to Cross-Cultural research on Education's Outcomes amongst the Poor: Reflections on RECOUP's Methodology. Paper presented at the British Association of International and Comparative Education conference, Glasgow, August 2008.
The first symposium on Disability, Development and Education was arranged at the 10th International Conference on Education and Development, Oxford (UK),September 2009.
Mugo, J., Oranga, J. & Singal. N. (2008). Testing youth transitions in Kenya: Are young people with disabilities falling through the cracks? Paper presented at the International Conference on Social and Human Development Outcomes of Education, 12-13 November 2008, Nairobi (Kenya).
Singal, N. (2008). Forgotten youth: Disability and development in India. RECOUP Working Paper 14. This paper was featured on the R4D website: http://www.research4development.info/caseStudies.asp?dwnCategory=3
For more information, please email Nidhi Singal at sn241@cam.ac.uk