The aim of this thesis is to critically examine and compare the web pages that provide disability content and information of ten selected Latvian and Swedish higher education institutions’ websites. The theoretical framework of the research is built upon the critical discourse analysis and Michel Foucault’s ideas of discourse and power while the analytical framework incorporates elements of Mullet’s (2018) framework of critical discourse analysis, Pauwels (2012) multimodal framework for analysing websites and the snapshot click study by Gabel et al. (2016). Overall, the examined web pages see disability from human rights and medical perspectives. The research findings indicated both similarities and differences between the two countries and the ten higher education institutions. The disability content on the web pages of Latvian higher education institutions focuses mainly on the physical accessibility, whereas Swedish institutions pay more attention to the academic and student services.The research results suggest that while the examined higher education institutions do somewhat attempt to include persons with disabilities within the higher education, they simultaneously continue to maintain and construct social barriers that exclude them.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:su-197440 |
| Date | January 2021 |
| Creators | Blumberga, Zane |
| Publisher | Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för pedagogik och didaktik |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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