Description
The second edition of The SAGE Handbook of Special Education provides a comprehensive overview of special education, offering a wide range of views on key issues from all over the world. The contributors bring together up-to-date theory, research and innovations in practice, with an emphasis on future directions for the role of special education in a global context of inclusion.
This brand new edition features:
" New chapters on families, interagency collaboration and issues of lifelong learning
" The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
" Policy reform proposals
" Equity and social justice in education
" The impact of new thinking on assessment
" Issues and developments in classification
" The preparation and qualifications that teachers need
The Handbook′s breadth, clarity and academic rigour will make it essential reading for researchers and postgraduate students, and also for practitioners, teachers, school managers and administrators.
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
About the Editor
About the Contributors
Editorial Advisors
Preface
Introduction
Part I: How Special Educational Needs Are Understood
Reimagining Special Education - Why New Approaches are Needed - Lani Florian
Confronting Difference: A Brief History of Special Education - Margaret A. Winzer
Models of Service Delivery and Forms of Provision - Tony Cline & Norah Frederickson
Categories of Special Educational Needs - Brahm Norwich
The Disproportionate Placement of Ethnic Minorities in Special Education - Beth Harry
A Sociological Perspective on Special Education - Sheila Riddell
Social Justice in Education for Students with Disabilities - David J. Connor
Part II: The Challenge of Inclusion
Disability Rights in Education - Marcia Rioux
Inclusive Education: From Targeting Groups and Schools to Achieving Quality Education as the Core of EFA - Renato Opertti, Zachary Walker & Yi Zhang
From Special Education to Effective Schools for All: Widening the Agenda - Mel Ainscow
Sui Ban Jiu Du: An Approach Toward Inclusive Education in China - Chunling Liu & Xueyun Su
Entry, Engagement and Empowerment: Dilemmas for Inclusive Education in an Indian Context - Nidhi Singal
Inclusive Schooling as a Means and End of Education? - Roger Slee
Equity in Inclusive Education: A Cultural Historical Comparative Perspective - Elizabeth Kozleski, Alfredo Artiles & Federico Waitoller
How Special Needs Funding Can Support Inclusive Education - Sip Jan Pijl
Part III: Knowledge Production
Epistemology and Special Education - Gary Thomas
Persistent Issues in Behavioral Theory and Practice - John W. Maag
Sociocultural Views of Learning - J. S. de Valenzuela
Educational Neuroscience: Bridging the Gulf Between Basic Research and Implications for Practice - Usha Goswami
Comparative and International Perspectives on Special Education - Justin J.W. Powell
A Disability Studies Frame for Research Approaches in Special Education - Douglas Biklen, Fernanda Orsati & Jessica Bacon
The Applied Science of Special Education: Quantitative Approaches, the Questions They Address, and How They Inform Practice - Samuel L. Odom & Kathleen Lynne Lane
Researching Inclusive Classroom Practices: The Framework For - Kristine Black-Hawkins
Research and Pupil Voice - Jill Porter
Using the Capability Approach to Evaluate the Well-being of Adult learners with Dis/abilities Participation - Barbara Ridley & Michael F. Watts
Part IV: Issues of Teaching
Learning Without Limits: Constructing a Pedagogy Free from Determinist Beliefs about Ability - Susan Hart and Mary Jane Drummond
Nothing Special - The Everyday Pedagogy of Teaching - Jonathan Rix and Kieron Sheehy
Universal Design for Learning - David H. Rose, Jenna W. Gravel, and David T. Gordon
Curriculum Considerations in Meeting the Educational Needs of Learners with Severe Intellectual Disabilities - Jean Ware
Beyond Categories and Labels: Knowledge to Support Assessment for Learning. Disability′ - A Problem Well Put? - Judith Hollenweger
Assessment for Learning and the Journey Towards Inclusion - Louise Hayward
Self-Assessment as an ′Insider′ Lens for Learning and Assessment - Roseanna Bourke and Mandia Mentis
Dynamic Assessment and Cognitive Intervention - Alex Kozulin
Expanding Approaches to Summative Assessment for Students with Impairment - J. Joy Cumming & Graham S. Maxwell
Instructional and Assessment Accommodations in the 21st Century - Martha L. Thurlow
Teaching and Learning in the Early Years - Susan A. Fowler, Michaelene M. Ostrosky and Tweety J. Yates
Teaching Elementary Students with Learning Difficulties - Sharon Vaughn, Jeanne Wanzek & Carolyn A. Denton
Secondary Special Education and Inclusive Practice: Pitfalls and Potential for the Success of All - Lisa A. Dieker and Selma Powell
Students with Disabilities in Postsecondary Education - Robert Stodden and Kelly Roberts
Teacher Assistants in Inclusive Classrooms - Michael F. Giangreco and Mary Beth Doyle
Assistive Technology to Provide Access to the Curriculum and Increase Independence - Amy G. Dell and Deborah A. Newton
Mobile Learning and Games in Special Education - Penny Standen and David Brown
The Evolving Use of Technology in Special Education: Is "Effectiveness" the Right question? - John Woodward & Ralph Ferretti
Friendships and Peer Relations Among and Between Children and Young People With and Without Learning Difficulties and/or Disabilities - Dawn B. Male
Finding a Voice: Families Roles in Schools - Dianne L. Ferguson, Amy N. Hanreddy and Philip M. Ferguson
Interagency Working and Special Education: Beyond ′Virtuous′ Ideas of Partnership towards Alternative Frameworks for Collaborative Work with Children - Liz Todd
Part V: Future Directions For Research and Practice
Education Without Condescension: Philosophy, Personhood and Cognitive Disability - Ruth Cigman
Challenging Orthodoxy in Special Education: On Longstanding Debates and Philosophical Divides Revisited - Deborah J. Gallagher
What do Classroom Teachers Need to Know about Meeting Special Educational Needs? - Ruth Kershner
The Professional Knowledge of Special Educators - Kari Nes
Inquiry and Community: Uncommon Opportunities to Enrich Professional Development for Inclusion - Marleen C. Pugach & Linda P. Blanton
Changing Perspectives of Special Education in the Evolving Context of Standards-Based Reforms in the US and England - Margaret J. McLaughlin and Alan Dyson
Medicalization in Schools - Valerie Harwood and Samantha McMahon
Special Education and its Contribution to the Broader Discourse of Education - Seamus Hegarty
Glossary - Cristina Devecchi
