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Historically, people with disabilities have been among the most impoverished, politically marginalized and least visible members of their societies globally. There are approximately 650 million disabled people in the world of whom 470 million are of working age. This situation is also true to...

The study sought to determine how learners with visual impairments develop their careers.The developmental theory by Donald Super (1972) guided the study. The theory established why people choose careers the way they do. The objectives of the study were to; establish how learners with visual...

This obligatory essay looks at the phenomenon of disabled individuals in the employment sector in Zambia. It acknowledges the current status quo which is that people with disabilities have been amongst the most economically impoverished, politically marginalised and least visible members of...

This essay sets out to give legal perceptions on resolve social stigma towards the mentally disabled persons in Zambia. It focuses on the stigma towards persons with mental disabilities and questions why society finds it difficult to accept mentally disabled persons as being comparable to...

A new era of persons with disabilities saw a new turn with the entry into force of the United Nations convention on the rights of persons with disabilities (UN CRPD) in May 2008.This convention requires states to move away from an approach that caters for people with disabilities in separate...

The aim of this study was to explore the extent of Survival Assistance to Orphans within the family/kinship system living in Libala and Chilenje. A Case-Control Study, community based, was conducted in Libala and Chilenje in February, 1997. Both are medium density areas, situated in Lusaka Urban,...

Knowledge regarding pre-service trainee teachers’ attitudes towards teaching as a career is necessary when planning ways of how to train, recruit and retain professionally trained teachers. The purpose of this study, therefore, was to determine the attitudes of University of Zambia pre-service...

This study sought to identify factors that contributed to poor life condition of female graduates with mental retardation from vocational training institutions in Zambia and measures that could address such factors. The study was carried out in five provinces (Lusaka, Central, Copperbelt, Luapula...