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Title

Theorising special education / edited by Catherine Clark, Alan Dyson, and Alan Millward.

Publication

London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.

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Additional Authors

• Clark, Catherine, 1944-
• Dyson, Alan.
• Millward, Alan.

Description

ix, 199 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

The field of special needs education is well established and, although it continues to develop, many feel it lacks a coherent theoretical analysis of its own. The contributors to this volume attempt to coherently map the theory of this exciting field.

Subject

Special education > Great Britain > Philosophy

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 174-192) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Notes on contributors -- 1. Introducing the issue of theorising -- 2. Would it work in theory?: arguments for practitioner research and theorising in the special needs field -- 3. Permission to speak?: theorising special education inside the classroom -- 4. From theory to practice: special education and the social relations of academic production -- 5. Medical and psychological models in special needs education -- 6. Models of complexity: theory-driven intervention practices -- 7. The poverty of special education: theories to the rescue? -- 8. Embracing the holistic/constructivist paradigm and sidestepping the post-modern challenge -- 9. Decision making in uncertainty -- 10. From Milton Keynes to the middle kingdom: making sense of special education in the 1990s -- 11. The politics of theorising special education -- 12. Conflicting perspectives on learning disabilities -- 13. Theorising special education: time to move on? -- References -- Index.

ISBN

• 0415147506 (alk. paper)
• 0415147514 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^97043773^

OCLC

• 37966271
• SCSB-10560424

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library