title: Developing applications of the ICF in education systems: addressing issues of knowledge creation, management and transfer.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Since its endorsement, the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) has been applied in many policy contexts, including education. While so far the focus has been on showing ways in which it can be used to describe functioning and disability, this article seeks to focus on its value to represent knowledge.
  
  
  METHODS
  Two applications of the ICF and ICF-CY in the context of the Swiss education system highlight ways in which the classification can be used to assist multidisciplinary teams in acquiring and mapping existing knowledge, in creating new knowledge and in applying it for specific purposes.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The conceptual analysis illustrates that "disability in education" is a hybrid conceptual world that needs to bridge disability-related information with information relevant for learning and education. The ICF can be used to adequately map such knowledge in complex social settings.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  More attention needs to be paid to the ICF as an information system to help negotiate between different views on reality and different areas of expertise. The selection of content and ways of representing it need to be considered in the light of the specific purposes during collaborative knowledge creation processes.
authors.affiliation: Zurich University of Teacher Education, Department of Research and Continuing Education, Zurich, Switzerland. judith.hollenweger@phzh.ch
authors.forename: Judith
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hollenweger
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D004185:Disability Evaluation; D019988:Children with Disabilities / Q000145:classification / Q000193:education*; D004519:Education, Special / Q000145:classification*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D038801:International Classification of Diseases; D058436:Knowledge Management; D008297:Male; D013557:Switzerland; D018875:Vocabulary, Controlled