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Inclusion of People with Background

Disabilities within Ukraine’s
Education System • Soviet Model for Special Education
• Defectology
Rob LeSueur • Segregation
• Independent Ukraine
• Outside Influence

Citation
Weishaar, P. M., & Weishaar, M. K. (2011). Access to public
Ukraine is set up for emergence of school education for students with disabilities: United
States and Ukraine. Social Welfare Interdisciplinary
inclusive education. Approach, 1(2), 34-42.

STUDY 1: POLICY CLAIM

Research Questions Researchers

• Not explicit • Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
• Second author: Fulbright Scholar - Ukraine
• How did Ukraine’s special education policy develop?
• How does this development compare to the
development of the United States?

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Methods Sites/ Setting

• Document Review • No setting

• Used Turnbull and Turnbull’s (2000) framework • Looked at laws, history, and culture of United States
• Analyzed the effect of policy and social issues on & Ukraine
legislation

Findings Concerns
• US • Limited access to Ukrainian Court Records
Parent Advocacy Groups
• Did not provide how data was collected
•
• Racial Desegregation
• Enactment of Federal Laws • Analysis Procedure

• Ukraine
• Independence/ Government Reform
• International Influence
• Enactment of Federal Laws

Citation
Bondar, T. I. (2014). Developing and implementing the inclusive

A lack of clear definition and

policy in Ukraine and the US legislature. Серія: Педагогічні
науки, 372(34), 7-11. Retrieved from http://www.irbis-
funding make Ukrainian inclusive nbuv.gov.ua/cgi-

education legislation ineffective.

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STUDY 2: POLICY CLAIM

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Research Questions Researchers

• Not explicit • Ukrainian Researcher
• “Research aim” • Cherkassy

• What are the causes of ineffective legislation in

Ukraine concerning inclusive education?

Methods Sites/ Setting

• Not given • No Setting

• Concerned with Ukrainian Legislation

Findings Concerns
• 32 terms used to refer to people with disabilities in • No Method
laws
• Confusing Result Section
• No clear structure or mechanism in how to follow
law • Did not expand on previous work greatly

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Citation
Khanzeruk, L. A. (2016). On the way To inclusion: The vision
“Maternal families” are a large from The ‘maternal family’. Journal of Research in Special
Educational Needs, 16, 782-785. doi:10.1111/1471-
part of the inclusive education 3802.12334
movement in Ukraine and should
be supported.
STUDY 3: POLICY CLAIM

Research Questions Researchers

• Not explicit • Ukrainian Researcher
• National Pedagogical University of Ukraine
• What unique role do maternal families fulfill as a
resource in the movement of inclusive education?

Methods Sites/ Setting

• Analysis of cultural, historical, and structural • No setting
influences on the Ukrainian family
• Document analysis
• Occasional hints at interviews or a survey

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Findings Concerns
• Ukrainian women are independent and play a considerable • Did not provide how data was collected
role in society. Also act as head of the family.
• Beyond demographic
• Influenced by traumatic events and economic difficulty
• Large share of families with children with disabilities are • Fluid presentation of method, findings, implications,
maternal etc.
• Maternal families linked to poverty and social
“disadaptation” of the mother
• Mothers going to change profession and learn special
education

Citation
Raver-Lampman, S. A., & Kolchenko, K. (2007). The
Inclusion of students with emergence of inclusion for students with disabilities in
Ukraine. The Journal of International Association of
disabilities is a satisfactory Special Education, 8, 43-53.
experience when done at
Ukrainian universities.
STUDY 4: POLICY CLAIM

Research Questions Researchers

• Not explicit • First author
• How do instructors and student with disabilities • Old Dominion University
perceive inclusion and university life in a university • Fulbright Scholar – Ukraine (2005)
in Ukraine? • Second author
• How do these perceptions compare to each other? • Ukrainian Researcher and Prorector at private Ukrainian
university

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Methods Sites/ Setting

• Survey Instrument • Open International University of Human
Development “UKRAINE”
• 80 students with disabilities
• 39 instuctors

Findings Concerns
• No difference in overall perceptions between instructors • Factual errors in background/ literature review
and university students with disabilities.
• Limited response to open-ended questions
• Individual Question Differences
• Willingness to move location of the classroom • Omitted responses
• Willingness to change teaching style to communicate with students
• Disconnect between results, discussion, and
• Students with disabilities feel accepted
conclusion in one area