EDUF2022 Chap.2 Models of Disability, Law and Policy

Models of Disability, Law and Policy

Define Social model in context

Define Social model through rights, participation and access rather than placement alone. Week 2 links models of disability with the Disability Discrimination Act, Disability Standards for Education and education policy. Identify the learner-environment relation before naming a support.

A Social model analysis asks which curriculum, instruction or setting feature creates the barrier and which voice is missing from the initial account.

Use Reasonable adjustment as an analytic relation

Use Reasonable adjustment to connect policy with classroom design. Locate the barrier, identify the consultation and adjustment obligation, and check whether participation occurs on the same basis.

A defensible Reasonable adjustment response distinguishes universal provision from targeted adjustment and explains how collaboration changes the plan. Record the Reasonable adjustment evidence that would show whether access, participation and learning actually improved.

Test the decision through Discrimination

Test the proposal through Discrimination.

An adjustment can be technically available yet ineffective when it is late, segregating or designed without consultation. A Discrimination decision should preserve dignity, learner agency and educational purpose while remaining feasible for the whole context.

State the Discrimination review point, responsible collaborators and condition that would require the support to change.

Use the chapter in assessment work

Use Social model to structure the relevant written, presentation or field-based assessment, grounding each claim in a case detail.

Check the limit before concluding

Legal compliance provides a floor for analysis, not a complete account of belonging or educational quality.

Conclude the Social model analysis with an action, its evidence and a clear review condition.

Work through the chapter case

A digital worksheet is called accessible because text-to-speech is available, but navigation fails by keyboard and the learner was not consulted. Begin by separating the observation from the interpretation.

Then apply Social model to fix the object or category, use Reasonable adjustment to explain the central relation, and let Discrimination test whether the conclusion survives.

For Social model, record the additional evidence that would distinguish the preferred account from its nearest alternative.

Repair and transfer through Discrimination

Return to the first unsupported inference about Social model, identify the missing evidence and repair only the dependent claim when repairing a Social model analysis.

After the Discrimination repair, transfer the method to a different example while holding the comparison categories steady. The aim in Models of Disability, Law and Policy is to discover whether the relationship still operates when audience, setting, evidence or practical constraint changes.

Evidence checklist for Social model

Before finishing, verify five things.

First, define Social model at the scale of the case. Second, identify the observation that supports the interpretation. Third, explain how Reasonable adjustment connects evidence to the claim. Fourth, use Discrimination to test an alternative or changed condition. Fifth, state the conclusion with the boundary that limits it. For practice, Change one condition in the Social model case and rebuild the explanation.

The worked direction is: Retain the supported observations, revise the first premise affected by the changed condition and restate the Social model conclusion for the Social model case in a Social model analysis. This Social model sequence makes the reasoning visible and gives revision a precise starting point.

Final Reasonable adjustment self-check

Read the response once for evidence and once for scope.

Circle the sentence that carries the Social model conclusion, underline the observation that supports it, and mark the relation expressed through Reasonable adjustment. If that observation cannot support the conclusion without an unstated assumption, narrow the claim or add the missing Discrimination comparison before submitting.

What this chapter covers

• 01

  Social model

• 02

  Reasonable adjustment

• 03

  Discrimination

• 04

  Apply Social model in a changed case

• 05

  Test the limit through Discrimination

Analyse a changed Social model case

Key terms

Social model

Social model is the chapter's starting category for identifying the relevant object, practice or process. It fixes the scale of the claim before interpretation begins.

Reasonable adjustment

Reasonable adjustment describes the relationship that connects the chapter evidence to an explanation. It must be shown through a specific observation rather than asserted as a label.

Discrimination

Discrimination is the checking concept used to qualify, compare or revise the first conclusion. Its value lies in changing the answer when the evidence changes.

Models of Disability, Law and Policy FAQ

Exam move

Reconstruct the Social model map from memory, apply it to a new case and record the first point where Discrimination changes the answer.

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