Emerging Grassroots Power: A Critique on Elections to the Panchayats and the Municipalities in Bihar

The book aims at assessing and analyzing if the type of educational placement (integrated and non-integrated) produced any significant influence and differences among adolescent blind and sighted students in respect of their self-esteem, adjustment and academic achievement. The interaction pattern and self-perception of blind students at school has been looked into from the social constructivist perspective of disability to analyze if experiences of schooling for children with disability are mediated through school practices and processes rather than the physical impairment itself. This work has been undertaken by the author with the view to create an awareness about people with disabilities and raise certain pertinent questions concerning perception of blind individuals about themselves and those of the 'significant others'. This book will be of immense help the readers and will play a significant role in creating awareness among the masses about people with disabilities.

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