Research project Education is today seen as a key to an equal start in life and is a fundamental human right for all children. However, children with disabilities remain a neglected group in education, research, and society, both historically and in the present. The research program EDUDIS has been created to contribute knowledge on the historically changing relationship between education and disability from the mid-nineteenth century to the present.
The research environment EDUDIS brings together scholars in educational history and disability history, both nationally and internationally. Its goal is to deepening knowledge about the relationship between education and disability and how it has changed over time. By combining quantitative analyses of register data with qualitative studies of policies, institutions, and practices at the intersection of schooling and disability, EDUDIS explores how time-bound educational ambitions have been implemented and how children with varying conditions have, in practice, participated in education.
Within EDUDIS, qualitative and quantitative studies are conducted on the period from the mid‑19th century to the present day. The research contributes knowledge on themes such as:
In this way, EDUDIS contributes to research in general educational history and, more specifically, the history of special education, as well as disability history and social history.
