Research Catalog

Title

Disability and democracy : reconstructing (special) education for postmodernity / edited by Thomas M. Skrtic ; foreword by Jonas F. Soltis.

Publication

New York : Teachers College Press, ©1995.

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Details

Additional Authors

Skrtic, Thomas M.

Description

xxii, 290 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Special education series

Uniform Title

Special education series (New York, N.Y.)

Alternative Title

Disability & democracy

Subject

• Bürger, Christa 1935-
• Special education
• Students with disabilities
• Postmodernism > Social aspects
• People with disabilities
• Education, Special
• Students
• Disabled Persons
• Postmodernism
• special education
• students
• Postmodernism > Social aspects
• Special education
• Students with disabilities
• Sonderpädagogik
• Soziale Situation
• Sozialer Wandel
• Kongress
• Postmoderne
• Speciaal onderwijs
• Democratie
• Onderwijs

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

Part I. Deconstructing/reconstructing the professions -- Theory/practice and objectivism : the modern view of the professions. Power/knowledge and pragmatism : a postmodern view of the professions / Thomas M. Skrtic -- Part II. Optional metatheories of special education and disability -- The functionalist view of special education and disability : deconstructing the conventional knowledge tradition / Thomas M. Skrtic -- The interpretivist view of special education and disability : the value of telling stories / Philip M. Ferguson and Dianne L. Ferguson -- The radical structuralist view of special education and disability : unpopular perspectives on their origins and development / Sally Tomlinson -- The radical humanist view of special education and disability : consciousness, freedom, and ideology / Dwight C. Kiel -- Part III. Optional theories of special education and disability -- Radical structuralist perspectives on the creation and use of learning disabilities / Christine E. Sleeter -- Holism and special education : there is no substitute for real life purposes and processes / Lous Heshusius -- Special education and student disability as organizational pathologies : toward a metatheory of school organization and change. Deconstructing/reconstructing public education : social reconstruction in the postmodern era / Thomas M. Skrtic.

ISBN

• 080773411X
• 9780807734117
• 0807734101
• 9780807734100

LCCN

95007268

OCLC

• ocm32133956
• 32133956
• SCSB-8919875

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library