A Research on “Disability Awareness” in Information and Records Management Departments of Universities

Abstract

Humans have equal rights in joining the society. However, in real life some groups of people cannot exercise these rights fully, with regard to the diversities in their social, cognitive and physical conditions. Disabled people constitute one of those groups. The problem of disabled ones is certainly a global human rights problem, and the most important point concerning the disabled ones lies in “creating awareness” In recent years developed and developing countries agree on the struggle against disabled-based discrimination, and are in need of the models such as disabled-participated education, information retrieval, social policies and utilization of economic policy tools in their societies. The aim of this study is to determine the disabled awareness to be reflected in the curricula of Information and Records Management Departments in our country.