In the master's thesis, we presented the issue of higher education for deaf and hard-of-hearing students from the perspective of justice and equal opportunities. We presented professional definitions of deafness and hardness of hearing, the causes for their occurrence, the communication of deaf and hard-of-hearing people, and the impact of deafness and hardness of hearing on personal development. We focused on the conception of justice and equal educational opportunities and discussed them through the concepts of Rawls and Sen, and through Kodelja's derivations and interpretations of Aristotle's and Walzer's theories of justice. We analyzed the legislation and documents that regulate higher education, as well as the formal solutions and adaptations provided by the University of Ljubljana in its regulations. We presented examples of good practices in higher education for the deaf and hard-of-hearing in Sweden and Norway.
In the empirical part of the thesis, through a collective case study, we found that deaf and hard-of-hearing students at the University of Ljubljana are formally mostly provided with equal education opportunities. However, when it comes to understanding the content of the study process, those involved in the survey expressed that they still experience many difficulties. Based on the analysis of sources, we presented proposals for improving the current state of higher education for deaf and hard-of-hearing students, supported by the results of the study.
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